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Adoration of the Shepherds (Giorgione)

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Original –Adoration of the Shepherds (Giorgione) - Painting from between 1500 and 1510 Listen to the video from Smarthistory. - this is 91 × 111 cm (35.8 × 43.7 in) and is 4,000 × 3,272 pixels.

OOps, discovered a Google Giorgione file too. Not used, just slightly bigger, ‎(4,582 × 3,750 pixels).

Reason

High quality scans, own article, much used from an interesting artist. Giorgione is considered by art historians as one of the most interesting and influential of the Renaissance Venetian painters. He was considered special among the painters of the era.
From the National Gallery:

This important painting had an immediate impact on Venetian artists. The composition is divided into two parts, with a dark cave on the right and a luminous Venetian landscape on the left. The shimmering draperies of Joseph and Mary are set off by the darkness behind them and contrast with the tattered dress of the shepherds. The scene is one of intense meditation; the rustic, yet dignified, shepherds are the first to recognize Christ's divinity and they kneel accordingly.

Articles in which this image appears

Adoration of the Shepherds (Giorgione), Adoration of the Shepherds, National Gallery of Art, Marian art in the Catholic Church, Nativity of Jesus in art

FP category for this image

Wikipedia:Featured pictures/Artwork/Paintings or maybe Wikipedia:Featured pictures/Culture, entertainment, and lifestyle/Religion and mythology

Creator

Giorgione.

• Support as nominator – Hafspajen (talk) 00:14, 8 December 2014 (UTC)
• Support - Very nice. — Crisco 1492 (talk) 19:52, 8 December 2014 (UTC)
• Support - Beautiful painting. Can you put the date it was painted in the caption? CorinneSD (talk) 21:07, 8 December 2014 (UTC)

• ^{Fixed. It's c. 1500. Hafspajen (talk) 23:05, 8 December 2014 (UTC)}

• Support --///EuroCarGT 22:21, 8 December 2014 (UTC)
• Support Fine here--The Herald : here I am 14:22, 11 December 2014 (UTC)
• Support --National Names 2000 (talk) 23:06, 20 December 2014 (UTC)

Promoted File:Giorgione - Adoration of the Shepherds - National Gallery of Art.jpg --Armbrust ^{The Homunculus} 00:15, 21 December 2014 (UTC)

• Added it to the "Artwork" category, because there is an article about the painting. Armbrust ^{The Homunculus} 00:15, 21 December 2014 (UTC)