The Adoration of the Magi

ca. 1500 (Renaissance)

41.1 cm 41.9 cm 1 cm

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This “tondo” (circular painting) depicts the episode from the Bible in which three wise men, or magi, from the "East" follow a bright star to the city of Bethlehem to pay tribute to the newborn Christ. Beneath the stable at the right is the Holy Family, represented much larger...

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Don Marcello Massarenti Collection, Rome [date and mode of acquisition unknown] [1881 catalogue: no. 176; 1897 catalogue: no. 113, as Pinturicchio]; Henry Walters, Baltimore, 1902, by purchase; Walters Art Museum, 1931, by bequest.
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