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Shorn of shepherds (and other dramatis personae)

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I love the notion (too clever by half - but thus all the more satisfying, some might say) that in this Adoration, Giorgione is offering us a double nativity. The birth of the Babe, obviously; but also the birth of landscape painting.

   What are those blue remembered hills?

   Merry Christmas, one and all.

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