Media Information

 
 
 
Collection:
ADJUNCT MODULE C: WORLD ART
Preferred Title:
Adoration of the Magi
Image View:
Overall view without frame
Creator:
Pieter Brueghel II (Flemish painter, ca. 1564-1638)
Location:
repository: Museo Correr (Venice, Veneto, Italy) Cl. I n. 166
Location Note:
Piazza San Marco 52
GPS:
45.4339 12.3375
Date:
ca. 1600 (creation)
Cultural Context:
Flemish
Style Period:
Sixteenth century
Work Type 1:
painting (visual work)
Classification:
Paintings
Material:
oil paint on wood panel
Technique:
oil painting (technique)
Measurements:
38 cm (height) x 56 cm (width)
Subjects:
cityscape; genre; New Testament; Blacks in art; Magi
Description:
The son of the great Pieter Bruegel the Elder produced rather superficial but invariably charming paintings based on his father's celebrated works. After a lapse of decades he revived these tender and moving scenes of peasant life, with their deep humanity and pragmatic realism. His paintings were in popular demand and evidently sold cheaply since they were recognized and accepted as copies and imitations of his father’s most famous compositions. He and his workshop made at least 30 copies after Pieter the elder’s Adoration of the Magi in the Snow. (Source: Grove Art Online; http://www.oxfordart online.com/)
Collection:
Archivision Adjunct Module C: World Art
Identifier:
7A1-PBRUEGEL-MC-AM-A 01
Rights:
© Scott Gilchrist, Archivision, Inc.

Adoration of the Magi