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1. Matthew 2:11:
“On entering the house, they saw the child with Mary his mother; and they knelt down and paid him homage.
Then, opening their treasure chests, they offered him gifts of gold, frankincense, and myrrh.”

2. Jheronimus Bosch
Adoration of the Magi
Museo Nacional del Prado, Madrid
Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York City

6. Jheronimus Bosch, Jérôme Bosch
The Adoration of the Magi
L'Adoration des mages
1475
Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York City
an adoration scene,
figures here are largely conventional, and beautifully painted

9. the ruins of an old castle …
the naked infant Christ sat up on the Virgin Mary’s lap,
Mary wears her customary blue robes,
Joseph, ageing, kneels, supporting himself on a walking stick
the Magi,
the first to pay homage kneels to present a golden ewer and basin, he has removed his hat, which incorporates a gold coronet;
the second presents bearing a spherical ciborium containing myrrh which is decorated with a phoenix;
the third holds an Gothic ciborium with frankincense

10. an ox,
a window in the wall and the face and hands of a man,
two shepherds, one warming his right hand over a small open fire,
a dog with a collar
an owl hiding in the shadow of a small opening,
a bird, a egg

12. four angels spread a large green tarpaulin,
a fifth angel at the top of the tower
three small armies on the move,
crows pick at the skeleton of a dead animal,
a body hangs from a gibbet

30. Jheronimus Bosch, Jérôme Bosch
The Adoration of the Magi, triptych, called the Prado Epiphany
L’Épiphanie, L'Adoration des Mages, triptyque
1494
Museo Nacional del Prado, Madrid
the Prado Epiphany
an enigmatic work, seductive and difficult to interpret

32. The open triptych
the central panel shows the adoration of the Christ child by the three kings,
the side panels depict the work’s patrons
the three panels form a continuous view of the local Brabant countryside, with its low rolling hills, and a city in the distance

35. The central panel
shows the Adoration of the Magi, depicted in accordance with traditional Early Netherlandish iconography
a precarious hut,
a monumental Mary,
the child Christ sitting on his lap

37. Melchior
kneeling with his gift: a sculpture of gold with the Sacrifice of Isaac, a forecast of Jesus' Passion; below the object are several
toads, symbols of heresy
Caspar
offers the Child incense on a golden plate;
the upper part of its cloak is decorated with one of the biblical themes: the Queen of Sheba presenting her gifts to Solomon
Balthazar
brings a spherical vessel whose reliefs depict the Offer of Water to King David, and which contains myrrh;
the phoenix gathering grain in its beak, evokes the Resurrection of Christ

39. an anti-Christ, wearing an ornate crown, and clutching a helmet,
partly undressed, and has an old wound on his right lower leg
two concealed owls, one of them in the upper part of the hayloft, gazing at the dead mouse and symbolizing of the evil nature
of the fourth king

41. two shepherds are leaning over the thatched roof to view the scene below, and three others are below them
a house whose flag with a swan and the dovecote above identify it as a brothel;
a man pulling a tethered horse ridden by a monkey, an allusion to lust
two armies of men on horseback, they have been identified as Herod’s soldiers seeking out Jesus to kill him
a windmill,
a town in the background must be Bethlehem

59. The side panels
The left panel
in the foreground Saint Peter presenting the donor,
Joseph drying cloths in front of a small open fire,
a small group of figures on a field
The right panel
Saint Agnes presenting the supplicant wife of the donor,
a lamb,
a man is being savaged by a wolf,
a city on a promontory

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Jheronimus Bosch
Adoration of the Magi
L'Adoration des Mages
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