Triptych with the Adoration of the Magi, the Nativity, and the Rest on the Flight into Egypt

ca. 1525 (Northern Renaissance)

90.6 cm 74.1 cm

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The center panel of this triptych depicts the Adoration of the Magi, along with the Journey of the Magi. As is commonly seen at this period, the youngest magus (or wise man) is a dashing black man. Following an issue raised in the Walters' exhbition Revealing the African Prese...

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Don Marcello Massarenti Collection, Rome [date and mode of acquisition unknown]; Henry Walters, Baltimore, 1902, by purchase; Walters Art Museum, 1931, by bequest.
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Mannerist
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