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ID number: BIRBI-78.1 Institution: The Barber Institute of Fine Arts Artist / Maker: Bassano, Jacopo (1510-1592) Title / Object name: The Adoration of the Magi Object type: Painting Place made: Venice Culture: Italian Date made: late 1560s Materials: Oil on canvas Measurements: 94.3 x 130 cm Provenance: Sir William Abdy Bt; his sale, Christie's Auction House, London, 5 May 1911 (lot 85); F.A. Konig, Tyringham; Agnew's Auction House, 1939; Major Peter Harris, 15 May 1939; purchased from Harris estate by Agnew's, 6 November 1978; purchased by the Barber Institute, November 1978 |
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The three kings, or Magi, approach the infant Christ with their gifts. Despite their worldly wealth, they bow to Christ who is acclaimed as the King of Kings. The setting in a ruined classical building symbolises the fate of paganism and of the old gods. They will be ruined as a result of Christ’s divine mission. Notes: Exhibited: 'Summer Exhibition of Fine Pictures by Old Masters', Thomas Agnew's Galleries, London, UK, 1939 (no. 45); 'Loan Exhibition of Thirty-Nine Masterpieces of Venetian Painting', Thomas Agnew's Galleries, London, UK, 1953 (no.1); 'Master Painters, Recent Acquisitions', Thomas Agnew's Galleries, London, UK, 1977 (no. 23); 'Art Treasures of England', Royal Academy, London, UK, 22 January 1998 - 13 April 1998 (no. 288); 'Nativity Trail', Birmingham Museum and Art Gallery, Birmingham, UK, 26 November 2008 - 31 January 2009; 'Jacopo Bassano - 500 years at Musee Civico di Bassano del Grappa', Museo Civico di Bassano di Grappa, Venice, Italy, 6 March 2010 - 13 June 2010; 'La Fabbrica del Rinascimento', Basilica Palladiana, Vicenza, 11 Dec 2021 - 18 April 2022 (Cat. p.218, no. 48) |
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1 Related People | |
| Bassano, Jacopo Italian 1510 1592-02-14 | |
8 Related Publications | |
| "Some Adorations" By Jacopo Bassano Frohlich-Bume, L. 1957 | |
| Jacopo Bassano Museo Civico 1992 | |
| Viennese di Sacopo Bassano Pallucchini, Rodolfo 1989 | |
| A Bassano Picture and a Teniers Copy Arslan, Wart 1929 | |
| Venetian Paintings Corsini, Piero 1991 | |
| Master Paintings Agnews Auction House 1977 | |
| I Bassano Arslan, E. 1960 | |
| The Golden Jubilee of the Barber Institute Spencer-Longhurst, Paul | |
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