The Adoration of the Shepherds

Night view is narrow, irregular space - There is a triangular opening behind and it is placed in a cave consisting of two semicircular arches. Mary hugged her newly born son lying naked on the knee, and Saint Joseph and the three shepherds surrounded them and expressed their love for their children. Yaku also considered the baby. The ellipse is closed at the top by a group of angels very close to the Holy Family. They expressed the joy of heaven at the birth of the Savior with a banner written "Gloria in Excel" [SIS DEO E] TERRA PAX [HOMINIBUS]. This scene of Jesus' birth can be seen as the last work of El Greco before the death of April 7, 1614. It was designed to decorate the cemetery of Theotocopuli family of monasteries in Santo Domingo del Antigua (Toledo) where El Greco received August 1657, his religious group and El Ge Lecco's son, Jorge · Manuel reached an agreement that the monastery gave up the apartment to the church's church next to the church gate. . This space is used as the cemetery of Theotocopuli and he promises to pay for the adjustment and decoration of family graves. In fact, his son's wife Alfonso de Morales was also buried there in addition to El Greco. However, in just four years after El Greco's death, due to the differences between the parties, in 1618 they canceled the agreement. Cistercian Sisters asked Jorge Manuel to drill ruins, but the large canvas designed and drawn by El Greco remained in the church until sold to Spanish citizens in 1954. This canvas is the culmination of formal improvement. In the last version from 1597 to 1605, the artist explained about Doña Maríade Aragón (current Bucharest Muzeul Nationaldeartà), Valencia's Colegio del Patriarca, and Caridad Hospital. Elishkas (Toledo) The children of Christ bathe in a small group that takes him into account and emit strong light: a group of virgins, Saint Joseph, three shepherds, and angels forming a heavenly dome. These numbers are an artist's unique job choice. The Metropolitan Museum of Art in New York clearly has a slightly modified studio version that was produced simultaneously with the original canvas (text from Lewis, L. National Museum, National Museum, National Prado Museum of Art, 2007, p .168; ElGreco. Guíadesala, Fundación Amigosdel Museo del Prado, 2011, pp. 46-48)

The worship of the shepherd in the art of Jesus' birth was the scene of a witness of the shepherd to the birth of Jesus in Bethlehem. And it arrived shortly after birth. It is usually combined with magician worship in art, in which case it is usually cited only by the latter title. When a shepherd is summoned to the scene by an angel, the news of the shepherd is a unique theme. The worship of the shepherd is not based on reports of other normative Gospels of Luke 2. There an angel appeared in a group of shepherds, Christ was born in Bethlehem, followed by a group of angels glorifying God on earth. Peace and goodwill

The worship of the shepherd as the subject of Christian art depicts the shepherd as a tribute to the new Christian, which is the event described in the Luke gospel. It is related to an old but representative but representative report of the shepherd, which shows that the shepherd received the magic of angel news in this area. The worship of the shepherd has not been seen as an independent theme in the east until the 15th century. First, in the early Christian art of the 4th century, one or more shepherds were included in the worship scene of three wise men who worshiped Christ's children from the east. They are drawn in such a scene, because they symbolize the spread of Christianity among the Jews as the first locals worshiping Christ. Symbolizing the spread of Christianity throughout the heathen world