Why it matters
The infant Christ seems to give off light on the faces of the barefoot shepherds. El Greco painted it in the last year of his life to hang over his own tomb in Santo Domingo el Antiguo in Toledo.
Did you know?
- The Prado considers it his last work.
- His signature in Greek appears at lower left.
- It stayed at Santo Domingo until the 20th century.
Based on the Wikipedia article Adoration of the Shepherds (El Greco, Madrid) (CC BY-SA 4.0).
