乔尔乔内油画作品《牧羊人的朝拜》

作品简介 / INTRODUCTION

　　作者:Giorgione 乔尔乔内

　　标题:The Adoration of the Shepherds

　　原始标题: Adorazione dei pastori Allendale

　　创作时间: 1505 - 1510年

　　风格: 文艺复兴全盛期

　　艺术类型: 宗教画

　　媒材: 油彩, 画布

　　地点: 美国华盛顿国家美术馆

　　尺寸: 90.8 x 110.5 公分

　　The Adoration of the Shepherds, sometimes still known as the Allendale Nativity, after a former owner, is a painting by the Italian Renaissance painterGiorgione, completed in about 1505 to 1510. The attribution is now usual, although not universal; the usual other view is that it is an earlyTitian. It is certainly a Venetian painting of that period. It is displayed in the National Gallery of Art of Washington, D.C., United States.

　　A group of paintings is sometimes described as the "Allendale group", after the Allendale Nativity. This group includes another Washington painting, the Holy Family, and an Adoration of the Magi predella panel in the National Gallery, London. This group, now often expanded to include another Adoration of the Shepherds in Vienna, and sometimes further, are usually included (increasingly) or excluded together from Giorgione's oeuvre.

　　Giorgione portrayed the main scene on the right, in front of a dark grotto, while on the left is bright landscape crowned by trees. A sincere dramatic tension is obtained by the choice to place the kneeling shepherd pilgrims in the centre of the painting. The entire group of parents, child, and pilgrim form an anchored rectangle that forms a counterpoised focal point to the receding landscape on the left.

　　This work was probably completed by Giorgione while he was part of the workshop of Vincenzo Catena, a strict follower ofGiovanni Bellini's style.　　It was owned by Cardinal Joseph Fesch (1763–1839) and sold at the Palazzo Ricci, Rome on 18 March 1845 (lot 874) as Adoration des bergers by "Giorgon (Giorgio Barbarelli dit le)" for 1,760 scudi (£370.53 at a rate of 4.75 scudi to the pound). The Cardinal was an uncle of Napoleon and a collector of gargantuan proportions. The sale of 17 and 18 March featured 1,837 pictures; the Louvre had 1,406 at the time. The collection includedFra Angelico's Last Judgement andPoussin'sA Dance to the Music of Time.