The Adoration of the Shepherds  1540

Catena’s painting relies for inspiration on the artists with whom he was in contact, above all his friend the great Venetian painter Giorgione, but with allusions as well to prints by Albrecht Dürer and landscape details by Giovanni Bellini. Painted around 1520 the Adoration has great charm, but must have already seemed old-fashioned in its approach to composition at that ...