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RAFFAELLO Sanzio: The Adoration of the Magi (Oddi altar, predella)

🖼 The Adoration of the Magi (Oddi altar, predella), 1502-03
Oil on canvas
27 × 150 cm
Vatican, Italy

Golden light floods a crowded scene where the Virgin kneels before the Christ Child, surrounded by richly dressed kings bearing gifts in elaborate procession. Raphael's masterwork crystallizes Renaissance ideals of harmony and perspective, becoming the era's definitive interpretation of this sacred narrative.

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E. H. Gombrich
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