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The Adoration of the Magi
1624 · Oil on panel · Koninklijk Museum voor Schone Kunsten Antwerpen (KMSKA)
For the Epiphany · 6 January
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A king kneels in white and swings a censer toward the Christ Child. The KMSKA identifies him as Caspar, placed closest to Him and dressed in vestments like a priest's at Mass, and calls that Peter Paul Rubens's own innovation, joining the Magi's gift to the Eucharist of the altar. Our Lady stands rather than sits, holding her Son out on the manger, set off-centre to the right. Behind the kings, camels, soldiers in helmets and a man in a turban press in. A classical column rises by the stable's broken wall, answering the marble frame of the high altar of St Michael's Abbey the painting was made to fill, so the painted stone continues the real. Rubens's own mother, the KMSKA notes, lay buried in that church. At the manger the ox keeps its head down.
Sources: KMSKA object page · KMSKA (Royal Museum of Fine Arts Antwerp), 'The Adoration of the Magi', Peter Paul Rubens, masterpiece page · Canon van Vlaanderen
And entering into the house, they found the child with Mary his mother, and falling down they adored him: and opening their treasures, they offered him gifts; gold, frankincense, and myrrh.
Matthew 2:11 · Douay-Rheims (Challoner)