The Adoration of the Shepherds

Jacopo Negretti was an Italian artist (1548 - 1628), known as Palma Giovane or Il Giovane, to distinguish him from his great uncle, also called Jacopo Palma (il Vecchio, 1478/90 - 1528) and his father Antonio Palma, both painters. He became the leading and most prolific painter and draughtsman in Venice after the death of Jacopo Tintoretto (1518 - 1594), whose style greatly influenced Palma's own work. Palma's vast body of works represents the impact of Tintoretto and central Italian Mannerism on Venetian painting in the generation after Titian, Tintoretto and Paolo Veronese.