Sujet

Adoration of the Three Kings, 1526. Creator: Wilhelm Stetter.

Légende

Adoration of the Three Kings, 1526. The wise men who, according to the Gospels, came from the East to adore the Christ Child and acknowledge his divinity, were often depicted as kings, underscoring the importance of their homage. The star that they followed is in the upper left corner. The oldest king, a regal European, kneels before the Child and his mother. The middle-aged Turkish potentate, wearing a turban, looks back through the doorway in the ruin where the holy family has taken refuge toward the youngest ruler, a vigorous young African, attired in elegant 16th-century German fashion. His facial features are more individualized than those of the other two, and it may be that he is based on a study made from life. In the distance, some of the kings' followers ride horses with very long necks, surely the artist's attempt at camels!

Crédit

Photo12/Heritage Images/Heritage Art

Notre référence

HRM23B16_157

Model release

NA

Property release

NA

Licence

Droits gérés

Format disponible

42,4Mo (2,3Mo) / 25,3cm x 42,0cm / 2990 x 4960 (300dpi)

Mots clés

Germany woman women woman people man boy boys child children interior group man men red family religious architecture German arts painting infant baby babies country religion parent art guy museum color mother scene Christianity infancy kneeling motherhood Renaissance depiction location century arrival inside parenting Bible Biblical concept arriving posture arrive mum Arched oil Painting Colour New Testament Bethlehem Palestine Indoors Nativity 16th century sixteenth century Adoration of the Magi portrait Biblical scene young women young woman oil on panel Walters Art Museum 1520s Heritage Art oil on panel Adoration of the Kings Wilhelm Stetter Stetter Wilhelm