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BASSANO, Jacopo: Adoration of the Magi

🖼 Adoration of the Magi, 1580-85
Oil on slate
35 × 27 cm
Eger, Hungary

Warm candlelight illuminates humble figures gathered around the infant Christ, rendered with Bassano's characteristic naturalistic detail and earthy palette. The composition democratizes the sacred narrative, emphasizing intimate human connection over hierarchical grandeur, reflecting Counter-Reformation values of emotional accessibility and spiritual immediacy.

The story of art
The story of art
E. H. Gombrich
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