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The Adoration of the Shepherds
1609 · Museo regionale Accascina, Messina
For Christmas · 25 December
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Our Lady lies on the straw with the Christ Child held to her cheek, and the shepherds gather to a family on the ground. Tools and a basket of bread lie in the corner. God has come down as low as the floor. The Messina museum calls this a manifesto of human fragility: the Madonna of Humility, the Virgin on the earth receiving the shepherds. It hung on the Capuchins' high altar, and a study after Lapucci reads her prone body as the base of a right triangle, cut from the equilateral one that stood for divinity. Caravaggio painted it in 1609. The Child's face is against hers.
Sources: 'Il Caravaggio a Messina: l'Adorazione dei Pastori', Studi e Ricerche, after Lapucci 1994 · The Art Newspaper, 11 Feb 2025, on Vincenzo Sorrentino, Paragone, Jan 2025 · Museo regionale interdisciplinare Maria Accascina, Messina, collection page 'Caravaggio'
And they came with haste: and they found Mary and Joseph, and the infant lying in the manger.
Luke 2:16 · Douay-Rheims (Challoner)