Metropolitan Museum As I look at the painting of The Adoration of The Shepherds, two artists, Andrea Mantegna and El Greco, showed it different ways with same subjects. First, the title of the paintings is about Jesus's birth. Andrea mantegna artist had lived from ca 1430 to 1506. He established his reputation when he was 20 years old. This painting is the evident of his highly individual style. He worked it during ca 1451 to 1453. He painted it in horizontal format with 153/4x217/8(40x55.6). He used tempera on a canvas that transferred from a wood. In difference, El Greco(Spain 141-1641) worked it with oil color on canvas by vertical format. The size is 125 5/8x707/8(319x180cm). In Greco's painting, the objects are full on the canvas that big two angels and others are placed on top of the middle place, and the people are placed in triangle position based on the landscape. The landscape is very detail. The people I find it that Holy Maria is standing in the middle and the mountain is placed behind of Maria among the landscape things. The Two pictures have same subjects such as Holy maria, Joseph, and baby(Jesus). In Mantegna's painting, everybody doesn't pay attention to the Maria and Jesus. The mood of the picture is very deep even it is afternoon time. A Joseph in left ignores to the event, and he just sleeps. The poor two people in right side are begging toward the Maria and the baby. In El Greco's painting, every five people are focused on Jesus and bless him. Especially, Joseph is showed exciting to the baby. There are not only human beings. In Mantegna's painting, little angels are in water, but in another, the angels are in the air. The angel figures in El Greco's are as humans that they are looking something like a name list. Holy Maria is in the each of the paintings, but the Maria in El Greco's painting is just looking at the baby. But Maria is praying to God in Mantegna's pain...
