GHIRLANDAIO, Domenico
(b. 1449, Firenze, d. 1494, Firenze)

Adoration of the Shepherds (detail)

1483-85
Panel
Santa Trinita, Florence

The long procession that winds along the sloping road reminds us of the one in the Adoration which Gentile da Fabriano had painted for Santissima Trinita sixty years earlier. In its rather disconnected and episodic progress it also recalls the procession that appears in Mantegna's Adoration of the Magi, now in the Uffizi.