ID: 700009593 Page link: http://vocab.getty.edu/page/cona/700009593	Record Type: Movable Work
Images: 1

The Adoration of the Shepherds (altarpiece; Bartolo di Fredi (Italian, active by 1353–died 1410 Siena); 1374; Metropolitan Museum of Art (New York City, New York state, U...; 25.120.288; )

Note: Once the central panel of an altarpiece, this painting simultaneously depicts the Adoration of the Christ Child by and the Annunciation to the Shepherds, shown in the upper right. To create clear spatial relationships, the artist employed overlapping planes and daring, if naive, perspective—most evident in the projecting roof of the stable. The setting of the narrative combines the Byzantine tradition of representing the Adoration in a cave with the Western iconography of a stable. This panel may have been flanked by single panels depicting standing saints.

Titles:

The Adoration of the Shepherds (preferred,C,U,English-P,U,U)

Catalog Level: item

Work Types:

altarpiece [300075940] (preferred)

..... (Objects Facet, Visual and Verbal Communication (hierarchy name), Visual Works (hierarchy name), visual works (works), <visual works by function>, religious visual works)

Classifications:

paintings (preferred)

Creation Date: 1374

Creator Display:

Bartolo di Fredi (Italian, active by 1353–died 1410 Siena) [preferred]

painter Bartolo di Fredi (Sienese painter, active by 1353, died 1410) [500031914]

Locations:

Other: Creation: Siena [7011179] Siena province (province), Tuscany (region (administrative division)), Italy (nation), Europe (continent), World (facet) (Geographic)

Current: Metropolitan Museum of Art (New York City, New York state, United States) [500125157] Corporate Bodies (Corp. Body)

Repository Numbers: 25.120.288

Credit Line: The Cloisters Collection, 1925

Display Materials: Tempera on poplar, gilding

	tempera [300015062]
	.......(Materials Facet, Materials (hierarchy name), materials (substances), <materials by function>, coating (material), <coating by form>, paint (coating), <paint by composition or origin>, water-base paint)

	gold leaf [300264831]
	.......(Materials Facet, Materials (hierarchy name), materials (substances), <materials by composition>, inorganic material, metal, <metal by form>, leaf (metal))

	panel (wood by form) [300014657]
	.......(Materials Facet, Materials (hierarchy name), materials (substances), <materials by origin>, biological material, plant material, <wood and wood by product>, wood (plant material), <wood by form or function>)

	poplar (wood) [300012363]
	.......(Materials Facet, Materials (hierarchy name), materials (substances), <materials by origin>, biological material, plant material, <wood and wood by product>, wood (plant material), <wood by composition or origin>, hardwood)

Dimensions: Overall: 69 1/8 x 45 1/8 in. (175.6 x 114.6 cm); Painted surface: 63 1/4 x 45 1/8 in. (160.7 x 114.6 cm)

General Subject:

religion and mythology (preferred)

Specific Subjects:

	Adoration of the Shepherds [901000229]
	.....((Legend of the Nativity of Christ, Life of Jesus Christ, New Testament narratives, Christian iconography, Legend, Religion, Mythology)) (ICON)

	continuous narrative [300056330]
	.....(Associated Concepts Facet, Associated Concepts (hierarchy name), <concepts in the arts and humanities>, artistic concepts, formal concepts (artistic concept), <visual and representational concepts>, <representational concepts by temporality of subject>) (AAT)

Provenance: Probably from the Dominican convent of SS. Annunziata in San Gimignano; George Grey Barnard American, Bellefonte, Pennsylvania 1863–1938 New York, New York (until 1925)

Related Works:

	former location was .... Convento della SS. Annunziata [700009594]
	..........convent (built complex); N/A; N/A

List/Hierarchical Position:

..... Movable Works

.......... Movable Works by class: drawings, paintings, prints, other two-dimensional media

Sources and Contributors:
The Adoration of the Shepherds	........ [VP]
	........ Harpring, Bartolo di Fredi (1993)
	........ Metropolitan Museum of Art [online] (2001-)

Subject: ....... [VP]

Note:
English	..... [VP]
	..... Metropolitan Museum of Art [online] (2001-) https://www.metmuseum.org/art/collection/search/458956?searchField=All&sortBy=relevance&ft=bartolo+di+fredi&offset=0&rpp=20&pos=1