The Caprioli Adoration is an Italian Renaissance sculpture, a relief in marble by Gasparo Cairano, dated between 1495 and 1500, placed in the Church of St Francis of Assisi in Brescia as a frontal for the high altar.

Originally, this relief was part of the funeral monument of Luigi Caprioli kept in the family chapel in the Church of San Giorgio in Brescia.

[1] From Bernardino Faino,[2] Francesco Paglia,[3] and other seventeenth and eighteenth century scholars,[4] it is known that the relief was inserted into some sort of architectural apparatus, to which a figurative altarpiece was attached.

A copy of a guide to Brescia by Alessandro Sala (from 1834) gives notice of some changes in ownership of the work:[5] There already existed in the church of San Giorgio a monument to Count Luigi Capriolo, above which was the following inscription: Aloysio Capreolo Patritio / Religione.

The work finally arrived at the Church of St Francis in 1841 to be used as a frontal on the high altar, as part of its reconstruction in neoclassical style by Rodolfo Vantini.

For the correct attribution and dating of the works discussed, he undertook a series of archival researches, which led him for the first time to elaborate precise stylistic considerations for his observations.

[14] Subsequent artistic criticism framed the work either to one of Cairano's followers or even Tamagnino, and to various periods between the end of the fifteenth to the beginning of the sixteenth century.

[17] The face of Mary makes the first female appearance in his oeuvre, less mediated than the male figures that Cairano was to apply in his cycle of the Caesars in the Palazzo della Loggia (Brescia).