Adoration of the Magi (Mantegna)

Adoration of the Magi
Artist Andrea Mantegna
Year 1462
Type Tempera on panel
Dimensions 76 cm × 76.5 cm (30 in × 30.1 in)
Location Uffizi, Florence

The Adoration of the Magi is a painting by the Italian Renaissance painter Andrea Mantegna, from 1462.

Together with The Ascension and The Circumcision, it forms a triptych created in 1827 at the Uffizi, where the picture can still be seen. The three works were acquired by the Medici in 1588 by the Gonzaga, whose member Ludovico had commissioned them to Mantegna in the 1460s for the Chapel of the Castle of St. George in Mantua (together with the Death of the Virgin, now in the Museo del Prado).

The panel with the Adoration of the Magi was probably located in the chapel's apse. The Magi are depicted while descending to the Child's grotto from a path carved out in the rock. The Virgin is portrayed with a crown of angels, according to a Byzantine model.

References

Ovetari Chapel (1448–1457) · The Adoration of the Shepherds (c. 1450–1451) · St. Jerome in the Wilderness (c. 1451) · San Luca Altarpiece (1453) · St. James Led to His Execution (c. 1455) · Presentation at the Temple (c. 1455) · Crucifixion (1459) · Agony in the Garden (c. 1459) · Portrait of Cardinal Ludovico Trevisan (c. 1459-1460) · St. Bernardino of Siena between Two Angels (1460) · Death of the Virgin (c. 1461) · Portrait of a Man (c. 1460) · Portrait of Francesco Gonzaga (c. 1461) · Madonna with Sleeping Child (c. 1470) · St. George (c. 1460) · San Zeno Altarpiece (1460) · St. Sebastian (of Vienna) (c. 1459) · Adoration of the Magi (1462) · The Ascension (1462) · The Circumcision (1464) · Portrait of Carlo de' Medici (c. 1459-1466) · St. Sebastian (of the Louvre) (c. 1480 · The Madonna of the Cherubim (c. 1485) · Triumphs of Caesar (c. 1486) · Christ as the Suffering Redeemer (c. 1488-1500) · Lamentation over the Dead Christ (c. 1490) · Madonna of the Quarry (1490) · St. Sebastian (of Venice) (1490) · Madonna della Vittoria (1496) · Judith and Holofernes (1495) · Trivulzio Madonna (1497) · Parnassus (Mars and Venus) (1497) · Holy Family (c. 1500) · Triumph of the Virtues (c. 1502)