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Adoration of the Magi
Also titled Aanbidding der koningen
Federico Barocci (Urbino, 1528–1612)
1545 - 1612
- Medium
- paper, ink, chalk
- Classification
- drawing
- Dimensions
- height 293 mm x width 209 mm
- Museum
- Rijksmuseum
- Credit line
- I.Q. van Regteren Altena Bequest, Amsterdam
- Rights
- Public Domain Mark, as the museum states it.
- Who can see it
- Teens profiles and older: its subject is for older viewers (war, death, the Passion, drink or the like). How works are placed
About this work
This drawing clearly reveals the artist’s working process. He first made a quick sketch, subsequently working out the depiction with pen and brown ink. Barocci was not pleased with the result and changed the position of the standing king's head three times. He then modelled the figures with opaque white, so that the group emerges as a relief from the blue background.
