Adoration of the Shepherdsby Pietro di Giovanni d'Ambrogio
c. 1445
Tempera on wood
Museo d'Arte Sacra, Asciano
Perfect for Christmas Eve: another swaddling-gone-wrong nativity.
This is a great painting for animals. Notice the ox and the cross-eyed ass with their co-mingled ears looking in on Jesus in his swaddling tube. There's an owl on top of the super-neat manger door. And what the heck is that animal in the lower right corner? Lion-poodle-sheep?
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