The Adoration of the Magi

A gold-ground panel painting of the Nativity: the Virgin rests on a bed beneath a wooden shelter while the infant Christ, haloed, lies in a manger. Three crowned, robed figures approach from the right, a kneeling man in red bends toward the child, and angels hover above among gilded clouds.

Artist

Giotto di Bondone

Date

possibly ca. 1320

Medium

Tempera on wood, gold ground

Source

The Metropolitan Museum of Art

Size

3885 × 4000 px

Credit (appreciated, not required for public-domain works): The Metropolitan Museum of Art, John Stewart Kennedy Fund, 1911