#ThrowbackThursday
The Adoration of the Magi
Andrea Della Robbia
Florence
Early 16th Century

On display at V & A Museum, London.

#AdorationoftheMagi #AndreaDellaRobbia #Florence #Italy #History

The #AdorationOfTheMagi or #AdorationOfTheKings or Visitation of the Wise Men is the name traditionally given to the subject in the #NativityOfJesusInArt in which the #threeMagi, represented as kings, especially in the West, having found Jesus by following a #star, lay before him gifts of #gold.

#AdorationoftheMagi, 1590, by #LaviniaFontana (Italian, 1552-1614). Held by Le musée Thomas Henry; source, commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Ad... #womenartists #artherstory #Epiphany #ThreeKings #FeastOfEpiphany

A song for #Ephiphany
William #Byrd: Vidimus Stellam
From Gradualia, 1607

Eleanor Cramer: #soprano
Christopher Goodwin: #lute
Alison Kinder: bass #viol
Tamsin Lewis: tenor viol

www.youtube.com/watch?v=3hLS...

#earlymusic #earlymusicensemble #earlymodern #adorationofthemagi #williambyrd

Passamezzo #AdventCalendar: Day 22
A marginal musician playing the #shawm.
Detail from a page from a #15thCentury #Gradual, showing the #AdorationoftheMagi.
Florence, #BibliotecaMediceaLaurenziana, Edili 150

#earlymusic #marginaliamonday #manuscriptmonday #renaissance

#Xmas in #Lima #Peru #PlazaMayor

#AlphabetChallenge #WeekXforXmas #EastCoastKin

#AdorationOfTheMagi (yes?) #Elves ? #SantaClaus

#WeAreRoamers #UrbanPhotography #UrbanGaze

#Photography #PhotographersUnited #PhotographersOfBluesky

#TudorTuesday
The Adoration of the Magi
Andrea Della Robbia
Florence
Early 16th Century

On display at V & A Museum, London.

#AdorationoftheMagi #AndreaDellaRobbia #Florence #Italy #History

Pieter Bruegel, The Adoration of the Magi in the Snow, 1563.

The Adoration of the Magi in the Snow, set in a contemporary Netherlandish village, is propably the first depiction of falling snow in a Western painting.

#pieterbruegel #adorationofthemagi #amrömerholz #winterthur #switzerland

Merry Christmas!

British (English) School - The Adoration of the Magi* (polyptych, panel 1), c. 1869, Magdalen College School
oil on panel

#merrychristmas #adorationofthemagi #jesuschrist

19th Century Erhard & Söhne Gothic Revival Bronze Casket Box

hakervintage.etsy.com/listing/1747...

#erhardandsöhne #erhardandsohne #bronze #casketbox #trinketbox #jewelrybox #neogothic #gothicrevival #1800s #19thcentury #madonnaandchild #adorationofthemagi

4) The work of #ArtemisiaGentileschi features on one of our earliest holiday cards, which is still available:

Adoration of the Magi, 1636–37
original art held at Pozzuoli Cathedral, Naples artherstory.net/product/10-p...

#womenartists #Christmascards #AdorationoftheMagi

- The 2020 #ArtHerstory holiday card is a more traditional Christmas card, featuring an #AdorationoftheMagi painting by #ArtemisiaGentileschi.

Read about it at artherstory.net/art-herstory...