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Giorgione portrayed the main scene on the right, in front of a dark grotto, while on the left is bright landscape crowned by trees. A sincere dramatic tension is obtained by the choice to place the kneeling shepherd pilgrims in the centre of the painting. The entire group of parents, child, and
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ultimately caused the rupture between Lord Duveen and
Berenson, ending one of the most influential relationships in modern art history. Duveen sold the painting, as a Giorgione, to Samuel Kress, the department-store magnate, for $ 400,000 in 1938. He displayed the
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pilgrims form an anchored rectangle that forms a counterpoised focal point to the receding landscape on the left. A "diminutive angel among the branches in the upper left".
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Allendale Nativity where Berenson notes his opinion of the painting as by Titian, October 28, 1937, © Kress Collection of Historic Images,
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concluded as early as 1871 that the painting was by Giorgione. Berenson's
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Joseph Archer Crowe; Giovanni Battista Cavalcaselle (1871).
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The naming of the painting is the main plot in the play
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