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Detail of The Adoration of the Magi by Bosch in the Metropolitan Museum of Art, August 2010

Detail of The Adoration of the Magi by Bosch in the Metropolitan Museum of Art, August 2010
The Adoration of the Magi

Artist: Hieronymus Bosch (Netherlandish, ’s Hertogenbosch ca. 1450–1516 ’s Hertogenbosch)

Date: ca. 1470–75

Medium: Oil and gold on wood

Dimensions: 28 x 22 1/4 in. (71.1 x 56.5 cm)

Classification: Paintings

Credit Line: John Stewart Kennedy Fund, 1913

Accession Number: 13.26

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Technical examination of numerous works by Hieronymus Bosch has allowed for the reconsideration of his oeuvre. Long thought to be a later pastiche, this panel can now be placed among Bosch's earliest autograph works. The salient features of its underdrawing, the tunnel-like perspective, and certain of the rather wooden figure types with sensitively rendered faces are closely related to other early paintings by the master.

The stage-like setting of the scene with a curtain held aloft by angels might indicate that the composition was influenced by religious plays, which were performed in Bosch’s hometown of ‘s-Hertogenbosch.

Text from: www.metmuseum.org/collection/the-collection-online/search/435724

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