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The Adoration of the Magi
Also titled De aanbidding van de koningen
Geertgen tot Sint Jans (Leiden, ca. –ca.)
c. 1480 - c. 1485
- Medium
- panel, oil paint (paint)
- Classification
- painting
- Dimensions
- painted surface: height 89.2 cm x width 69.2 cm
- Museum
- Rijksmuseum
- 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
The painter Geertgen tot Sint-Jans lived in Haarlem in the monastery of the Sint-Jansheren (the Commandery of the Knights of Saint John), from which he took his name.The three magi represent the three generations and hail from the three continents known in the Middle Ages: Europe, Asia and Africa. They are paying tribute to the newborn baby Jesus.
