The Adoration of the Magi
Also titled De aanbidding van de koningen
Jan Jansz Mostaert (Haarlem, 1465–1552)
c. 1520 - c. 1525
- Medium
- panel, oil paint (paint)
- Classification
- painting
- Dimensions
- painted surface: height 48.5 cm x width 34 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
This painting ‘zooms in’ on the adoration of the magi to such an extent that, as a spectator, you feel almost present at the birth. The kings bring gifts for baby Jesus, who is not in a lowly stable, but in the ruins of a palace - that of King David, where, according to legend, Jesus was born many centuries later.
