Dozens of people line up around a shed-like structure and around stone ruins to kneel before a woman and baby at the lower center of this circular painting. All the people have pale skin. The crowd gathers along a pathway that winds around a rocky mountain at the top middle of the composition. Most of the people are on foot but a few ride horses or camels. The line of people curves around and through an arched opening in a stone ruin to our left. Sitting at the center of the painting, behind the woman and baby, Mary and Jesus, the structure is open at the front and has a triangular pitched…
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The Adoration of the Magi

painter Fra Angelico (Florentine, c. 1395 - 1455)

and painter Fra Filippo Lippi (Florentine, c. 1406 - 1469)

c. 1440/1460

Medium
tempera on poplar panel
Classification
Painting
Dimensions
overall (diameter): 137.3 cm (54 1/16 in.) ; framed: 188 x 171.5 x 12.7 cm (74 x 67 1/2 x 5 in.)
Culture
Florentine
Museum
National Gallery of Art, CIS-R
Credit line
Samuel H. Kress Collection
Rights
Public domain (NGA Open Access, 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

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