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Gentile da Fabriano painted the Adoration of the Magi in 1423 for the chapel of the wealthy banker Palla Strozzi in Santa Trinita, Florence. The tempera-and-gold altarpiece presents the Magi's journey and arrival as a continuous, richly populated procession filled with luxurious fabrics, animals, an...
Hieronymus Bosch's Adoration of the Magi Triptych, generally dated around 1490-1500, is an oil-on-panel altarpiece now in the Museo del Prado in Madrid. The central panel presents the Magi before the Virgin and Child, while the interior wings portray the donors with their patron saints. Its conventi...
Sandro Botticelli's Adoration of the Magi, painted around 1475, is a tempera panel now in the Uffizi Gallery in Florence. The biblical worship of the Christ Child is populated by contemporary Florentine figures, including portrait likenesses traditionally identified with Cosimo de' Medici and other...
Jan Gossaert's Adoration of the Kings is a large early sixteenth-century Netherlandish altarpiece, painted in oil on panel and now in the National Gallery in London. It depicts the Magi presenting gifts to the Christ Child amid elaborate architecture, richly described fabrics, and numerous attendant...
Diego Velazquez painted The Adoration of the Magi in 1619 during his early career in Seville; the oil-on-canvas work is now in the Museo del Prado in Madrid. It depicts the infant Jesus receiving the Magi in a closely grouped, naturalistically observed scene rather than an expansive royal procession...
