
The Adoration of the Shepherds
Girolamo da Carpi

Renaissance Painter · Active 1530 – 1540
Girolamo da Carpi is among the painters whose work defines the Renaissance era. Paintale holds 2 of Carpi's works in its collection, spanning themes of religion & mythology, tragedy & death.
Where to see the work: The Metropolitan Museum of Art · Art Institute of Chicago.
Girolamo da Carpi's surviving output sits squarely within the Renaissance period, and the paintings collected here return repeatedly to religion & mythology, tragedy & death. Read together, they trace how one artist worked through the same problems of figure, light, and narrative weight that defined the period.
Girolamo da Carpi's paintings have found permanent homes at institutions such as The Metropolitan Museum of Art, Art Institute of Chicago. Every entry on Paintale digs into how each piece was made, what it depicts, and how it has been read and re-read since it left the studio.
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