The Adoration of the Kings

The Adoration of the Kings is a small oil painting on panel of c. 1500 by the Italian Renaissance painter and architect Bramantino in the National Gallery, London. In it the Holy Family and the Magi are, unusually, joined by an adult John the Baptist, whose Baptism of Christ was celebrated on the same day as Epiphany in the liturgical calendar. At 56.8 cm (22.4 in) × 55 cm (22 in), it was probably commissioned for private use by an individual rather than for placing in a church, but nothing is known about its early history. The panel entered the National Gallery in 1916 as part of the Layard Bequest.

Bramantino was a painter in Milan, who is relatively little known outside northern Italy, where most of his paintings remain; this is the only known example in the United Kingdom. In a Milanese art scene dominated by Leonardo da Vinci, Bramantino instead belonged to a tradition of "the struc…

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