Chapel 7 - The Adoration of the Shepherds

The chapel depicts the shepherds worshipping the newborn Jesus. A first group of statues, probably made of wood, already existed in the early sixteenth century. A new group in terracotta was modelled by Gaudenzio Ferrari between 1515 and 1517. It included the statues of the Virgin Mary, Saint Joseph, the child (stolen and replaced at the end of the eighteenth century), the donkey, the ancient wooden statue of the ox and the two central shepherds. The shepherds near the railing and the angels were added between 1617 and 1628 at the behest of Bishop Taverna. The groups of wooden angels were added in the seventeenth-century. The late nineteenth century frescoes depict a stable.