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Adoration of the Shepherds
Aldo Carpi1957 - 1958
Museo Diocesano Milano
Milano, Italy
Details
- Title: Adoration of the Shepherds
- Creator Lifespan: 1886 - 1973
- Creator Nationality: Italian
- Creator Gender: Male
- Creator Death Place: Milan
- Creator Birth Place: Milan
- Date: 1957 - 1958
- Provenance: Milan, Chapel of the Sisters of Our Lady of the Cenacle
- Physical Dimensions: w118.5 x h112.5 cm
- Painter, sculptor: Aldo Carpi
- Description: The stained glass window depictions of the Gospel by Aldo Carpi were executed between 1957 and 1958 for the new Chapel of the Sisters of Our Lady of the Cenacle in Via Fratelli Gabba in Milan. Carpi inserted his work into the architecture of the chapel, which was built in 1954 and consists in a single room in the form of a semi-circle. Carpi fit the windows into the continuous band of light that defines the space between the walls of the semicircle and the ceiling. In the course of the day, sunlight illuminates the space of the chapel in different ways. Coming through the visual narrative of the windows, it seamlessly breaks into the new Last Supper. Natural light becomes divine light in the visual thinking of the artist, who essentially transposes the Gospel of Luke, from the Annunciation to the Ascension. The glass band, which is slightly tapered at both ends, becomes a kaleidoscope of colored light that affects the quality of the interior space and is a form of catechetical teaching that is immediate and beautiful. The window in question represents the Adoration of the Shepherds, done according to the iconographic tradition of the second half of the sixteenth century. The whole cycle, consisting of 29 stained glass windows, is now kept in storage.
- Type: stained glass
- Rights: © Archivio fotografico Museo Diocesano, Milano
- Medium: polychrome stained glass connected with lead
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