The Adoration of the Shepherds
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Giovanni Battista Paggi
(Genoa, Italy, 1554–1627)
NationalityItalian, Europe
Date1570s
MediumPen and brown ink with brush and brown wash over black chalk on beige paper
DimensionsSheet: 9 3/16 × 7 7/8 in. (23.3 × 20 cm)
Credit LineBlanton Museum of Art, The University of Texas at Austin, The Suida-Manning Collection, 2017.1266
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Collection AreaPrints and Drawings
Object number2017.1266
On View
Not on viewPaggi’s style was determined by Cambiaso, his first teacher, but given a more academic orientation and regular appearance during a twenty-year sojourn in Florence. Returning to Genoa in 1599, he was briefly the city’s most important painter and a leading teacher of the next generation. Long thought Cambiaso’s, this drawing has recently been recognized by Mary Newcome as an early work of Paggi.
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