adoration of the Magi 

Adoration of the Magi

Filippino Lippi

adoration of the Magi 

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Details

Date
1496
Holding institution
Uffizi Gallery
Image provider
wikimedia-commons
License
Public domain
Credit
Uffizi Gallery

Art Genome Taxonomy

10 tags

Subject Matter

  • Bible Story Both · 99%

    The catalog title identifies the subject as an Adoration of the Magi, and the image shows the Virgin and Child surrounded by richly dressed worshippers, gift vessels, halos, and a procession.

  • Landscapes Visual · 96%

    The upper and middle background contains hills, trees, water, paths, distant buildings, and figures moving through an expansive terrain.

  • Animals Visual · 98%

    Horses, an ox, and a donkey-like animal are visible among the foreground group and the mounted procession.

Styles and Movements

  • Renaissance Art Interpretive · 91%

    The 1496 date, devotional panel format, halos, elaborate drapery, and carefully staged recession align with Renaissance art; the supplied metadata does not itself provide a style label.

Visual Qualities

  • Bright and Vivid Colors Visual · 95%

    The painting uses saturated reds, blues, oranges, ochres, and golds across the costumes, vessels, halos, and landscape.

  • Dense Composition Visual · 99%

    Overlapping figures, animals, architecture, procession routes, and landscape details fill nearly the entire panel.

  • Highly Detailed Visual · 93%

    The work presents finely rendered costumes, vessels, facial features, animals, masonry, timber, vegetation, and distant architectural details.

Medium and Techniques

  • Painting Metadata · 99%

    The catalog classifies the work as a painting.

  • Oil Painting Metadata · 99%

    The supplied medium is explicitly recorded as panel; oil paint.

Time Periods

  • 15th Century Art Metadata · 99%

    The catalog dates the work to 1496, placing it in the fifteenth century.

Source & rights

Filippino Lippi. Google Arts & Culture — -QFNUqt9evHu8A

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