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image of The Adoration of the Shepherds
Giorgione
Venetian, 1477/1478 - 1510
The Adoration of the Shepherds, 1505/1510
oil on panel, 90.8 x 110.5 cm (35 3/4 x 43 1/2 in.)
Samuel H. Kress Collection
1939.1.289
From the Tour: Giorgione and the High Renaissance in Venice
Object 3 of 7

Literature

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  • Duveen 1941, fig. 147-150.
  • Book of Illustrations. National Gallery of Art, Washington, 1942: 247, repro. 113.
  • Frankfurter, Alfred M. The Kress Collection in the National Gallery. New York, 1944: 47, repro.
  • Cairns, Huntington and John Walker, eds., Masterpieces of Painting from the National Gallery of Art. New York, 1944: 64, color repro.
  • Paintings and Sculpture from the Kress Collection. National Gallery of Art, Washington, 1945 (reprinted 1947, 1949): 99, repro.
  • Favorite Paintings from the National Gallery of Art Washington, D.C.. New York, 1946: 15-18, color repro.
  • Einstein, Lewis. Looking at Italian Pictures in the National Gallery of Art. Washington, 1951: 78-82, repro.
  • Walker, John. National Gallery of Art, Washington. New York, 1956: 26, color repro.
  • Shapley, Fern Rusk. Comparisons in Art: A Companion to the National Gallery of Art, Washington, DC. London, 1957 (reprinted 1959): pl. 133
  • Paintings and Sculpture from the Samuel H. Kress Collection. National Gallery of Art, Washington, 1959: 154, repro.
  • Shapley, 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.
  • The 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.
  • Seymour, 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
  • Walker, John. National Gallery of Art, Washington, D.C.. New York, 1963 (reprinted 1964 in French, German, and Spanish): 142, repro.
  • Summary Catalogue of European Paintings and Sculpture. National Gallery of Art, Washington, 1965: 58
  • Cairns, Huntington and John Walker, eds., A Pageant of Painting from the National Gallery of Art. 2 vols. New York, 1966: 1:160, color repro.
  • Shapley, Fern Rusk. Paintings from the Samuel H. Kress Collection: Italian Schools, XV-XVI Century. London, 1968: 151-152, fig. 367-370.
  • European Paintings and Sculpture, Illustrations. National Gallery of Art, Washington, 1968: 50, repro.
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  • Gibbons, Felton. "Further Thoughts on the Allendale Nativity." Studies in the History of Art vol. 8 (1978):23-34, color repro.
  • Watson, Ross. National Gallery of Art. London, 1979: 35, pl. 17, color repro.
  • Shapley, Fern Rusk. Catalogue of the Italian Paintings. 2 vols. National Gallery of Art, Washington, 1979: I:208-211, II:pl. 144
  • Walker, John. National Gallery of Art, Washington. (rev. ed.) New York, 1984: 196, no. 232, color repro.
  • European Paintings: An Illustrated Catalogue. National Gallery of Art, Washington, 1985: 175, repro.
  • Rosand, David. "Pastoral Topoi: On the Construction of Meaning in Landscape." Studies in the History of Art 36 (1992):164, repro. no. 1.
  • Rearick, W. R. "From Arcady to the Barnyard." Studies in the History of Art 36 (1992):137-141. repro. no. 1.
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  • Steinberg, 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.
  • Freedberg, 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.
  • Freedman, Luba. The "Blurred" Horizon in Leonardo's Paintings, France, 1997, no. 1, repro.
  • Saber Ver lo Contemporaneo del Arte, México, 1997, p.52, repro.
  • Danziger, Elon. "The Cook collection, its founder and its inheritors." The Burlington Magazine 146, no. 1216 (July 2004): 453.

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