Gentile da Fabriano’s “Adoration of the Magi” at the Uffizi Gallery in Florence depicts the journey of the three kings (Melchior, Balthazar and Caspar) to pay homage to the newborn Christ ...
Florentine artist Sandro Botticelli created great masterpieces of the Renaissance. Do you know all of Botticelli's most ...
Image credit: "Adoration of the Magi," Gondarine sensul, Ethiopian, late seventeenth century. Baltimore, The Walters Gallery, Walters Manuscript 36.10, fol. 2r. CC BY-NC-SA 3.0. Challenging the ...
The wise men in today's gospel reading are often depicted in our cribs and carols as kings. However, the gospel describes ...
Our Nativity scenes seem incomplete until the 12th day of Christmas when the Magi finally arrive at Jesus' crib for the first celebration of the Epiphany. Although Matthew is the only evangelist ...