# Adoration of the Magi

- By: Federico Barocci (Urbino, 1528–1612)
- Date: 1545 - 1612
- Medium: paper, ink, chalk
- Classification: drawing
- Dimensions: height 293 mm x width 209 mm
- Credit line: I.Q. van Regteren Altena Bequest, Amsterdam
- Museum: [Rijksmuseum](https://www.rijksmuseum.nl/en/collection/object/RP-T-1981-28--0ad4d6212523726d49f16ad1fcac71d0)
- Rights: [Public Domain Mark](http://creativecommons.org/publicdomain/mark/1.0/)
- Picture: https://invisiblenetwork.ai/thumbs/web/154f34b8f531e520c0bd70b6469c7f69.jpg
- Who can see it: Teens profiles and older (museums give no ratings; placed by Invisible Network from the museum's own words)

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.