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The drinking servant in depictions of the ‘Adoration of the Magi’
04/2021 | 1417 | 163
Pages: 344-351
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Author:
Megyeši, Peter (Megyeši, Peter)
Subjects
artists:
Stefano da Verona / Costa, Lorenzo di Ottavio, ca.1460-1535 / Altichiero da Zevio, act. 1369-1393 / Weyden, Rogier van der
patrons:
Bevilacqua Lazise, Bevilacqua / Bentivoglio, Antonio Galeazzo
places:
Naples
places:
Brno / Padua / Verona / Bologna
subjects:
Christian iconography / Jesus Christ: Adoration of the Magi / Italian painting / Netherlandish painting / Angevin
subjects:
Drinking / Servants
works:
Speculum Humanae Salvationis
Illustrations
Attributed works:
1. Adoration of the Magi, by Stefano da Verona. c.1438. Tempera on panel, 72 by 47 cm. (Pinacoteca di Brera, Milan).
Attributed works:
10. Detail of Fig.11, showing the drinking servant.
Attributed works:
11. Adoration of the Magi, by Lorenzo Costa the Elder. 1499. Oil on panel, 75 by 181.3 cm. (Pinacoteca di Brera, Milan).
Attributed works:
12. Adoration of the Magi, by a Neapolitan follower of Giotto. c.1340–43. Tempera and gilding on panel, 66.4 by 46.7 cm. (Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York).
Attributed works:
4. Adoration of the Magi (central panel of the Columba Altarpiece), by Rogier van der Weyden. c.1455. Oil on panel, 139.5 by 152.9 cm. (Alte Pinakothek, Munich).
Attributed works:
5. Detail of Fig.4, showing the drinking servant.
Attributed works:
6. Detail of Fig.8, showing the Adoration of the Magi.
Attributed works:
7. Detail of Fig.6, showing the drinking servant.
Attributed works:
8. Nativity, by Altichiero da Zevio. c.1379–84. Fresco. (Oratory of St George, Padua).
Attributed works:
9. Detail of Fig.1, showing the drinking servant.
Western art unattributed:
2. Portable folding polyptych. c.1330–40. Tempera and gilding on panel, statue of the Virgin and Child in alabaster, 49 by 78 cm. (Moravian Gallery, Brno).
Western art unattributed:
3. Detail of Fig.2, showing the drinking servant in the Adoration of the Magi.