Annunciation to the Shepherds
After Jacopo Bassano · c. 1710
- Medium
- Oil on canvas
- Original size
- 97 × 79 cm (38 3/16 × 31 1/8 in.)
- Currently held
- Art Institute of Chicago
- Movement
- Baroque
Radiant with the drama of a divine light splitting open a night sky, this composition captures one of the most visually arresting moments in the gospel narrative. Jacopo Bassano, the sixteenth-century Venetian master, was among the first painters to treat the Annunciation to the Shepherds as a nocturnal scene — using the angel's celestial glow to illuminate startled figures and animals from below, a technique that anticipates the tenebrism of Caravaggio. This c. 1710 work, painted after Bassano's celebrated original, carries forward his pastoral sensibility and warm earth tones, preserving the sense that the sacred has interrupted something utterly ordinary: shepherds at rest with their flock. Bassano's animal figures were so admired that contemporaries collected his paintings partly for the naturalistic livestock alone — a telling measure of how groundbreaking his rural subjects were for the period. This hand-painted oil reproduction on canvas faithfully renders the layered glazes, dynamic lighting, and earthy warmth that define the Bassano tradition, bringing the same atmospheric depth found in the Art Institute of Chicago's holding into a format made to live with.
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