Announcement to the shepherds
An angel announces to a group of poor and humble shepherds the birth of Jesus, showing them the way that will lead them to the place of the Nativity.
Emblematic
figures of the Neapolitan nativity scene, the shepherds are represented in their state of wonder and agitation when listening to the news.
Emblematic
figures of the Neapolitan nativity scene, the shepherds are represented in their state of wonder and agitation when listening to the news.
Two of them are asleep:
highly symbolic is Benino’s sleep who according to an interpretation, is the metaphor of man’s indifference; according to another interpretation, the sleeping shepherd boy dreams of the nativity scene that is about to be made.
