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RUBENS, Peter Paul: Adoration of the Magi

🖼 Adoration of the Magi, 1618-19
Oil on canvas
245 × 325 cm
Lyon, France

Opulent figures gather around the infant Christ in swirling Baroque composition, rendered with sumptuous color and dynamic movement. Rubens captures the wealthy Magi's devotion through elaborate costume and gesture, celebrating both spiritual reverence and worldly magnificence central to Counter-Reformation art.

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