Explore: Shepherds In Art

the Shepherds is the traditional name for a New Testament episode in the story of Jesus's nativity, which is the subject of many works of art. In it shepherds

and Daphnis. This symbolism and shepherds as characters are at the center of pastoral literature and art. Shepherding is among the oldest occupations

annunciation to the shepherds is an episode in the Nativity of Jesus described in the Bible in Luke 2, in which angels tell a group of shepherds about the birth

Et in Arcadia ego (also known as Les bergers d'Arcadie or The Arcadian Shepherds) is a 1637–38 painting by Classical painter Nicolas Poussin. It depicts

of the Shepherds at right, and a Washing of the Christ Child at the bottom. The Virgin Mary appears twice, as does the baby Jesus. The Jesus in the bath

Naples Adoration of the Shepherds, now in the Palazzo Madama, Turin Adoration of the Shepherds, now in the North Carolina Museum of Art, Raleigh, North Carolina

" The image of the Good Shepherd is the most common of the symbolic representations of Christ found in early Christian art in the Catacombs of Rome, before

the Shepherds is an oil on canvas painting by the Italian artist Michelangelo Merisi, commonly known as Caravaggio. The Adoration of the Shepherds measures

Good Shepherd "Master of the Annunciation to the Shepherds". Oxford Art Online. "Master of the Annunciation to the Shepherds". Sotheby's Fine Art Auctions

Et in Arcadia ego (also known as The Arcadian Shepherds) is an oil-on-canvas painting created c. 1618–1622 by the Italian Baroque artist Giovanni Francesco