The Adoration of the Magi

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The three Magi or wise men with their exotic entourage worship the new-born Christ (Matthew 2: 1–12) in this unfinished and/or damaged painting. The artist was familiar with Venetian art of the sixteenth and seventeenth centuries and may have been active in Venice in the late seventeenth century. Narrative scenes of this shape and subject were placed on the side walls of chapels: a similar work is that by Francesco Zanella in the Duomo at Padua.

Ashmolean Museum, Oxford

Oxford

Title

The Adoration of the Magi

Date

c. 1700

Medium

oil on canvas

Measurements

H 84 x W 143 cm

Accession number

WA1947.201.3

Acquisition method

Presented by the daughters of James Reddie Anderson, 1947

Work type

Painting

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