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Gold-ground panel painting of the Virgin and Child receiving a kneeling king, with crowned attendants, a white horse, and a red-roofed building.

The Adoration of the Magi, tempera and gold panel

A gilded panel shows the Virgin Mary seated at right in a dark blue mantle, holding the Christ Child, while a kneeling king in a red-and-white robe offers a gift. Other crowned and hatted figures, a white horse, and a gold-ground rocky landscape crowd the scene under a red-roofed building.

Artist
Bartolo di Fredi
Date
ca. 1390
Medium
Tempera and gold on wood
Source
The Metropolitan Museum of Art
Size
2373 × 3722 px
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Public domain · The Metropolitan Museum of Art releases this image under CC0 (latest date 1395).
Rights checked 2026-11-05 · tier A · as stated by the source: CC0 (The Met Open Access, isPublicDomain=true)

Credit (appreciated, not required for public-domain works): The Metropolitan Museum of Art, Robert Lehman Collection, 1975

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