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Zuccaro, Federico
The Annunciation of the Shepherds
unknown date

Federico Zuccaro was an Italian Mannerist painter and architect, active both in Italy and abroad. This drawing depicts an angel heralding the birth of Jesus. It is generally considered significant that this message was given to shepherds, who were located on the lower rungs of the social ladder in first-century Palestine._

 
Zuccaro, Federico
born S. Angelo in Vado, Marches, Italy 1529 – Rome, Italy 1566
The Annunciation of the Shepherds
unknown date
Pen and brown ink, brown wash heightened with white (partly oxidized), over black chalk, on light brown paper
25.50 x 15.70 cm
Gift of Bayside Lakeshore Properties Ltd., Montreal, 1998
41-018.08

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