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Master of the Holy Blood
Flemish, (active early 16th c. )
Adoration of the Magi, ca. 1515
Flemish Painting
Oil on panel
38 11/16 in. x 21 7/8 in. (98.2 cm x 55.5 cm), without frame
Marion Stratton Gould Fund, 80.43
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About the Object
This painting depicts the New Testament story of one of the most popular devotional images in Christian art, the Adoration of the Magi. After Christ was born, three wealthy Magi, or Kings, from the east came to Jerusalem seeking the one “who was born king of the Jews.” When they found him near Bethlehem with Mary and Joseph, seen here standing behind the Virgin and infant Christ, they “bowed down and worshipped him, opened their treasures and presented him with gifts of gold, incense and myrrh.”
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