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The Adoration of the Magi
Geertgen tot Sint Jans (Netherlandish, c. 1460-c. 1490)
1480s
- Medium
- oil on wood
- Classification
- Painting
- Dimensions
- Framed: 39 x 29.5 x 3.5 cm (15 3/8 x 11 5/8 x 1 3/8 in.); Unframed: 29.3 x 18.9 cm (11 9/16 x 7 7/16 in.)
- Culture
- Netherlands, Haarlem, 15th century
- Museum
- Cleveland Museum of Art, Medieval Art
- Credit line
- Gift of the Hanna Fund
- Rights
- Public domain (CC0), as the museum states it.
- Who can see it
- Tweens profiles and older: its subjects are known and suit older children. How works are placed
View at the Cleveland Museum of Art
About this work
Little is known about the life and career of Sint Jans. He seems to have been born in Haarlem in Holland in the northern Low Countries where he may have been attached to the Knights of Saint John as a lay brother, and likely produced an altarpiece for that order. (His name seems to derive from his affiliation with the Knights of Saint John.) He died young in his late 20s. Between 12 and 16 paintings are attributed to him. The subjects tend to derive from the New Testament. The original context of this painting is not known.
