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| Keywords: Bernardo Strozzi - Adoration of the Shepherds - Walters 37277.jpg Bernardo Strozzi - Adoration of the Shepherds - Google Art Project jpg Walters Art Museum artwork Q18749455 Creator Bernardo Strozzi en The Evangelist Luke recorded that the birth of Christ was announced first to shepherds who then went to Bethlehem to find the baby but his Gospel does not state that they worshipped Jesus This interpretation was introduced by St Francis of Assisi who stressed that the glad news was first revealed to the shepherds to signify the importance of the poor in God's plan; it remained important to the teachings of the Franciscan religious order founded by St Francis Bernardo Strozzi a member of a reform branch of the Franciscans suggests these shepherds' poverty through their appearance and their humble gift This combination of a naturalistic treatment of the subject with an artistic mixing of bright colors is characteristic of painting in Genoa at this time The clarity of the composition is in keeping with the Church's Counter-Reformation demands that artists should be more concerned with conveying an effective message than displaying their own artistry Zeri Italian paintings in the Walters Art Gallery 374 492-493 ca 1615 Baroque Oil on canvas Painted surface cm 97 8 139 4 accession number 37 277 14271 Don Marcello Massarenti Collection Rome prior to 1897 1897 catalogue no 480 as Murillo Henry Walters city Baltimore Walters Art Museum Henry Walters Acquired by Henry Walters with the Massarenti Collection 1902 Bernardo Strozzi State University of New York at Binghampton Vestal 1967 Three Baroque Masters Strozzi Crespi Piazzetta Baltimore Museum of Art Baltimore 1944 Italian Painting of the Seventeenth Century Allen Memorial Art Museum Oberlin 1952 Genoese Masters Dayton Art Institute Dayton; The John and Mable Ringling Museum of Art Sarasota; Wadsworth Atheneum Museum of Art Hartford 1962-1963 From El Greco to Pollock Early and Late Works by European and American Artists Baltimore Museum of Art Baltimore 1968 Bernardo Strozzi Master Painter of the Italian Baroque The Walters Art Gallery Baltimore; Palazzo Ducale Genoa Genoa 1995 Highlights from the Collection The Walters Art Gallery Baltimore 1998-2001 place of origin Genoa Italy Walters Art Museum license 2D Baroque paintings in the Walters Art Museum New Testament paintings by Bernardo Strozzi Media contributed by the Walters Art Museum needs category review | ||||
