Adoration of the Shepherds (Giorgione)

Adoration of the Shepherds
Artist	Giorgione
Year	ca. 1505 to 1510
Medium	oil on panel
Subject	Adoration of the Shepherds
Dimensions	90.8 cm × 110.5 cm (35.7 in × 43.5 in)
Location	National Gallery of Art, Washington, D.C.
Owner	National Gallery of Art
Accession	1939.1.289
Website	http://www.nga.gov/content/ngaweb/Collection/art-object-page.432.html

The Adoration of the Shepherds, sometimes still known as the Allendale Nativity, after a former owner, is a painting by the Italian Renaissance painter Giorgione, completed in about 1505 to 1510. The attribution is now usual, although not universal; the usual other view is that it is an early Titian. It is certainly a Venetian painting of that period. It is displayed in the National Gallery of Art of Washington, D.C., United States.

A group of paintings is sometimes described as the "Allendale group", after the Allendale Nativity. This group includes another Washington painting, the Holy Family, and an Adoration of the Magi predella panel in the National Gallery, London. This group, now often expanded to include another Adoration of the Shepherds in Vienna, and sometimes further, are usually included (increasingly) or excluded together from Giorgione's oeuvre.