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image of The Adoration of the Shepherds
Giorgione (artist)
Italian, 1477/1478 - 1510
The Adoration of the Shepherds, 1505/1510
oil on panel
overall: 90.8 x 110.5 cm (35 3/4 x 43 1/2 in.)
Samuel H. Kress Collection
1939.1.289
On View
From the Tour: Giorgione and the High Renaissance in Venice
Object 3 of 7
1941Duveen 1941, fig. 147-150.
1941Preliminary Catalogue of Paintings and Sculpture. National Gallery of Art, Washington, 1941: 78-79, pl. V.
1942Book of Illustrations. National Gallery of Art, Washington, 1942: 247, repro. 113.
1944Cairns, Huntington and John Walker, eds., Masterpieces of Painting from the National Gallery of Art. New York, 1944: 64, color repro.
1944Frankfurter, Alfred M. The Kress Collection in the National Gallery. New York, 1944: 47, repro.
1945Paintings and Sculpture from the Kress Collection. National Gallery of Art, Washington, 1945 (reprinted 1947, 1949): 99, repro.
1946Favorite Paintings from the National Gallery of Art Washington, D.C.. New York, 1946: 15-18, color repro.
1951Einstein, Lewis. Looking at Italian Pictures in the National Gallery of Art. Washington, 1951: 78-82, repro.
1956Walker, John. National Gallery of Art, Washington. New York, 1956: 26, color repro.
1957Shapley, Fern Rusk. Comparisons in Art: A Companion to the National Gallery of Art, Washington, DC. London, 1957 (reprinted 1959): pl. 133
1959Paintings and Sculpture from the Samuel H. Kress Collection. National Gallery of Art, Washington, 1959: 154, repro.
1960The National Gallery of Art and Its Collections. Foreword by Perry B. Cott and notes by Otto Stelzer. National Gallery of Art, Washington (undated, 1960s): 19, color repro. 12.
1960Shapley, Fern Rusk. Later Italian Painting in the National Gallery of Art. Washington, D.C., 1960 (Booklet Number Six in Ten Schools of Painting in the National Gallery of Art, Washington, D.C.): 24, color repro.
1961Seymour, Charles. Art Treasures for America: An Anthology of Paintings & Sculpture in the Samuel H. Kress Collection. London, 1961: 94, repro. 88, color repro. 86, 89
1963Walker, John. National Gallery of Art, Washington, D.C.. New York, 1963 (reprinted 1964 in French, German, and Spanish): 142, repro.
1965Summary Catalogue of European Paintings and Sculpture. National Gallery of Art, Washington, 1965: 58
1966Cairns, Huntington and John Walker, eds., A Pageant of Painting from the National Gallery of Art. 2 vols. New York, 1966: 1:160, color repro.
1968European Paintings and Sculpture, Illustrations. National Gallery of Art, Washington, 1968: 50, repro.
1968Shapley, Fern Rusk. Paintings from the Samuel H. Kress Collection: Italian Schools, XV-XVI Century. London, 1968: 151-152, fig. 367-370.
1975European Paintings: An Illustrated Summary Catalogue. National Gallery of Art, Washington, 1975: 152, repro.
1978Gibbons, Felton. "Further Thoughts on the Allendale Nativity." Studies in the History of Art vol. 8 (1978):23-34, color repro.
1979Shapley, Fern Rusk. Catalogue of the Italian Paintings. 2 vols. National Gallery of Art, Washington, 1979: I:208-211, II:pl. 144
1979Watson, Ross. National Gallery of Art. London, 1979: 35, pl. 17, color repro.
1984Walker, John. National Gallery of Art, Washington. (rev. ed.) New York, 1984: 196, no. 232, color repro.
1985European Paintings: An Illustrated Catalogue. National Gallery of Art, Washington, 1985: 175, repro.
1992Rearick, W. R. "From Arcady to the Barnyard." Studies in the History of Art 36 (1992):137-141. repro. no. 1.
1992Rosand, David. "Pastoral Topoi: On the Construction of Meaning in Landscape." Studies in the History of Art 36 (1992):164, repro. no. 1.
1992National Gallery of Art, Washington. National Gallery of Art, Washington, 1992: 28, repro.
1993Freedberg, S. J. "The Attribution of the Allendale Nativity." Studies in the History of Art 45 (1993): 51-70, repro. no. 1, 3, 4, 5, 7, 14, 23.
1993Steinberg, Arthur. "Blurred Boundaries, Opulent Nature, and Sensuous Flesh: Changing Technological Styles in Venetian Painting, 1480-1520." Studies in the History of Art 45 (1993): 216.
1997Saber Ver lo Contemporaneo del Arte, México, 1997, p.52, repro.
1997Freedman, Luba. The "Blurred" Horizon in Leonardo's Paintings, France, 1997, no. 1, repro.
2004Danziger, Elon. "The Cook collection, its founder and its inheritors." The Burlington Magazine 146, no. 1216 (July 2004): 453.

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