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The Adoration of the Magi

Northern Italian School

Ashmolean Museum, Oxford

The Adoration of the Magi

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The three Magi, with their exotic entourage worship the new-born Christ (Matthew 2: 1–12). Traditionally attributed to Baldassare Peruzzi, this composition derives from Peruzzi's cartoon of 1522–1523 now in the National Gallery and from a lost design from Raphael's studio for the Scuola Nuova tapestry. The artist, who may have been Emilian, also refers to Andrea del Sarto. Two drawings in the Uffizi and in Berlin relate to this painting or a lost prototype.

Ashmolean Museum, Oxford

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Title

The Adoration of the Magi

Date

c. 1530

Medium

oil on panel

Measurements

H 42.3 x W 53 cm

Accession number

WA1979.8

Acquisition method

Presented by M. V. B. Hill, 1979

Work type

Painting

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