Adoration of the Magi
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The Adoration of the Magi is the name traditionally given to the Christian subject in the Nativity of Jesus in art in which the three Magi, represented as kings, especially in the West, having found Jesus by following a star, lay before him gifts of gold, frankincense, and myrrh, and worship him. In the church calendar, this event is commemorated in Western Christianity as the Feast of the Epiphany (January 6). The Orthodox Church commemorates the Adoration of the Magi on the Feast of the Nativity (December 25). Christian iconography has considerably expanded the bare account of the Biblical Magi given in the second chapter of the Gospel of Matthew (2:1-11) and used it to press the point that Jesus was recognized, from his earliest infancy, as king of the earth.
Treatments by individual artists
Many hundreds of artists have treated the subject. A partial list of those with articles follows.
- Adoration of the Magi, Fra Angelico and Filippo Lippi, National Gallery of Art, Washington, D.C.
- Hieronymus Bosch, Museo del Prado, Madrid
- Adoration of the Magi of 1475 (Botticelli), Botticelli: National Gallery of Art, Washington, D.C.
- Triptych of the Virgin's Life, Dirk Bouts
- The Adoration of the Kings (Bruegel), National Gallery, London
- The Star of Bethlehem, Edward Burne-Jones, Birmingham Museum and Art Gallery
- Adoration of the Magi (Andrea della Robbia), Victoria and Albert Museum
- Saint Columba Altarpiece, Rogier van der Weyden, Alte Pinakothek, Munich
- Adoration of the Kings (Gerard David, London), National Gallery, London
- Adoration of the Magi (Dürer), Uffizi, Florence
- The Adoration of the Magi (Geertgen tot Sint Jans), Rijksmuseum
- Domenico Ghirlandaio, Ospedale degli Innocenti, Florence
- The Adoration of the Kings (Gossaert), National Gallery, London
- Adoration of the Magi (Leonardo), Uffizi, Florence
- Adoration of the Magi (Lorenzo Monaco), Uffizi
- Adoration of the Magi (Gentile da Fabriano), Uffizi, Florence
- Adoration of the Magi (Mantegna), Uffizi
- Madonna and Child (Masaccio), Gemäldegalerie, Berlin
- Adoration of the Magi (Perugino, Perugia), Galleria Nazionale dell'Umbria, Perugia
- Adoration of the Magi (Rubens, Lyon), Museum of Fine Arts of Lyon
- Adoration of the Magi (Rubens, Cambridge), King's College Chapel, Cambridge
- Adoration of the Magi (Rubens, Antwerp), Royal Museum of Fine Arts Antwerp
- Adoration of the Magi (Velázquez), Museo del Prado, Madrid
- Adoration of the Magi (Veronese), National Gallery, London
- Adoration of the Magi (tapestry) by Morris and Co with Edward Burne-Jones
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