Description

The name of the artist who created this painting has not survived to the present day, but it is possible to trace his activity to the Venetian area, as can be seen from the intense tones of colour he used; the composition, moreover, is influenced by the Venetian-Cretan pictorial experience. The scene is framed frontally, in a close-up; if it were not for the numerous bystanders, the few architectural and decorative elements would suggest a 16th-century tradition of the Adoration of the Magi theme. We can ascribe this painting to a workshop painter of the first half of the 17th century, given the attention to the rendering of the bodies and the rich garments with which the Magi are dressed.