Category:Adoration of the Magi by Botticelli (Washington)

**Adoration of the Magi**
	painting by Sandro Botticelli (National Gallery of Art, Washington DC)
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Instance of	painting;
Main subject	adoration of the Magi;
Depicts	Christ Child, boy, Virgin Mary, woman, adoration of the Magi, biblical Magi and adoration
Made from material	tempera; panel (painting support);
Genre	religious art;
Location	National Gallery of Art, Washington, D.C., District of Columbia
Creator	Sandro Botticelli;
Collection	National Gallery of Art (1937–);
Inventory number	1937.1.22 (National Gallery of Art);
Inception	1482 (statement with Gregorian date earlier than 1584);
Width	102 cm;
Height	68 cm;
Religion or worldview	Christianity;
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Artist



Alternative names	Birth name: Allessandro Filipepi Sandro Filipepi Alessandro di Mariano Filipepi Alessandro di Mariano Filipepi Botticelli
Description	Italian painter, drawer, architectural draftsperson and fresco painter
Date of birth/death	circa 1445	17 May 1510
Location of birth/death	Florence	Florence
Work period	1460 –1510
Work location	Florence (1469–1481), Pisa (1475), Rome (1481–1482), Florence (1482–1490), Volterra (ca. 1483), Mantua (1502), Florence (1503–1510)
Authority file	: Q5669 VIAF: 179145970098632250973 ISNI: 0000000120994768 ULAN: 500015254 LCCN: n79022942 NLA: 35020599 MusicBrainz: 941961a5-6ece-492d-8298-86e3211b33e3 WGA: b/botticel Open Library: OL131884A DBNL: bott030 GND: 118514008 SELIBR: 178807 SUDOC: 031637531 BNF: 119585037 NDL: 00433953 BIBSYS: 90331541 NKC: jn20000700212 SBN: CFIV034976 BNE: XX1036706 CiNii: DA01673120 NLP: a0000001185220 KulturNav: e2680051-d198-4108-9094-a77cb57402f8 RKD: 11286 J9U: 987007258913305171 Koninklijke: 068790511 NLK: KAC199603071 WorldCat

Title

Italian:

Adorazione dei Magi

Adoration of the Magi

Object type

Genre

Description

Depicted people

Date

1482

Medium

Dimensions

68 × 102 cm (26.7 × 40.1 in)

Collection

National Gallery of Art

	Native name	National Gallery of Art, Washington DC
	Location	Washington, D.C., United States of America
	Coordinates	38° 53′ 29″ N, 77° 01′ 12″ W
	Established	17 March 1941
	Website	www.nga.gov
	Authority file	: Q214867 VIAF: 3064149198328574940008 ISNI: 0000000123753994 ULAN: 500115983 LCCN: n79054426 NAID: 10479068 WorldCat

Current location

Gallery 07

Accession number

Object history

Said to have been acquired from a private collection in Rome by the engraver Peralli;
Dominique Vivant Denon [1747-1825], Paris;
sold 1808 to Czar Alexander I of Russia, [1777-1825], Saint Petersburg;
Imperial Hermitage Gallery, Saint Petersburg;
purchased January 1931 (through Matthiesen Gallery, Berlin; P. & D. Colnaghi & Co., London and New York; and M. Knoedler & Co., New York and London) by Andrew W. Mellon, Pittsburgh and Washington, D.C.;
deeded 5 June 1931 to The A.W. Mellon Educational and Charitable Trust, Pittsburgh;
gift 1937 to NGA.

Notes

English: The artist painted several Adorations, including two earlier Adoration of the Kings paintings now in the National Gallery in London, and the Adoration of the Magi for Santa Maria Novella, now in the Uffizi.

Deutsch: 1470-1471 entstanden vier Gemälde zur »Anbetung der Könige«, vgl. National Gallery, London (2x) und Uffizien, Florenz.

References

Source/Photographer

Sandro Botticelli

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