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adoration of the shepherds, as a theme in art, depiction of shepherds paying homage to the newborn Christ, an event described in The Gospel According to Luke. It is related to the older but less frequently represented annunciation to the shepherds, which shows the same shepherds in the fields receiving from an angel news of the miraculous birth. The adoration of the shepherds was never treated as a separate theme in the East and it was not until the 15th century that it was depicted in the West. At first, in Early Christian art in the 4th century ce, one ...(100 of 286 words)

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