File:El Greco (Domenikos Theotokopoulos) - The Adoration of the Shepherds (ca. 1605–10) - Metropolitan Museum of Art.jpg

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El Greco: The Adoration of the Shepherds  wikidata:Q19911449 reasonator:Q19911449
Artist
El Greco  (1541–1614)  wikidata:Q301 q:en:El Greco
 
El Greco
Alternative names
Birth name: Domenikos Theotokópoulos
Description Italian- painter, sculptor, architect and architectural draftsperson
Date of birth/death 1 October 1541 Edit this at Wikidata 7 April 1614 Edit this at Wikidata
Location of birth/death Heraklion Toledo
Work location
Authority file
artist QS:P170,Q301
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Title
The Adoration of the Shepherds
Object type painting Edit this at Wikidata
Genre religious art Edit this at Wikidata
Description
Depicted people
Date circa 1912
date QS:P571,+1912-00-00T00:00:00Z/9,P1480,Q5727902
Medium oil on canvas
medium QS:P186,Q296955;P186,Q12321255,P518,Q861259
Dimensions
  • Original artwork: 144.5 by 101.3 centimetres (56.9 in × 39.9 in)
  • With strips added during restoration in 1948: 163.8 by 106.7 centimetres (64.5 in × 42.0 in)
institution QS:P195,Q160236
Accession number
05.42
Place of creation Toledo, Spain
Object history
  • Don Alfonso de Silva Fernández de Hijar y Campbell, 15th Duke of Hijar, Madrid; Don Luis de Navas, Madrid (until 1895)
  • E. Kerr-Lawson, Scotland (from 1895)
  • Dugal McCorkindale, Carfin Hall, Lanarkshire, Scotland (by 1899–1903)
  • Sold by McCorkindale at London, Morrison & Co., Nov. 6, 1903, no. 64, ill., as "The Nativity".
  • Eugene Glaenzer, New York (by 1904–5)[1]
Exhibition history See Metropolitan Museum of Art website.
Credit line Rogers Fund, 1905
Inscriptions GLOR[IA] INEXC[ELSIS D]EO / HOMI[NIBVS] / LAVDAMVSTE BENEDICIMV[STE] (on scrolls)
References See Metropolitan Museum of Art website.
Source/Photographer Metropolitan Museum of Art
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current10:10, 26 March 2017Thumbnail for version as of 10:10, 26 March 20174,816 × 7,460 (5.65 MB)Alonso de Mendozarecorte y brillo
23:37, 24 November 2014Thumbnail for version as of 23:37, 24 November 20145,000 × 7,652 (6.89 MB)Crisco 1492Full rez.
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