1495
tempera
panel
From the collection of Art Institute of Chicago
The Adoration of the Magi is a 1495 tempera by Raffaello Botticini, a Early Renaissance work, held at Art Institute of Chicago.
The painting shows three men visiting a baby, likely a scene from a story. This work is interesting because it was made a long time ago, and the artist used a lot of detail. The painting also has a lot of gold and bright colors, which was common in art back then. You can learn more about this style by looking into the technique: tempera.
Possibly Alexander Barker (died 1874), London [according to catalogue of the Leyland sale, though it is not the one described in Gustave Waagen, Galleries and Cabinets of Art in Great Britain, London, 1857, p. 71 as Dello Fiorentino (?), nor the tondo attributed to Filippo Lippi in the Barker sale, June 19, 1879, no. 489]. Frederick Richards Leyland, London, by 1892, as Filippino Lippi [Child 1892 illustrates the painting in his salon]; sold, Christie’s, London, May 28, 1892, lot 97, to Jeffrey [buyer listed in annotated catalogue at the Getty Research Center]. Emile Gavet, Paris, by 1894…
Chicago, The University of Chicago, The Renaissance Society, Commemorative Exhibition from the Martin A. Ryerson Collection, 1932, no. 4, as Francesco Botticini. Art Institute of Chicago, Century of Progress, 1933, cat. 112, as Francesco Botticini. Art Institute of Chicago, Century of Progress,1934, cat. 46A, as Francesco Botticini. Art Institute of Chicago, The Christmas Story in Art, 1938–1939, as Francesco Botticini, no cat. Art Institute of Chicago, Masterpiece of the Month, November 1940, as Francesco Botticini, no cat. Burlington, Vermont, Robert Hull Fleming Museum, 1947, no cat.…
Theodore Child, “A Pre-Raphaelite Mansion” in Art and Criticism. Monographs and Studies, New York, 1892, p. 317, ill. Ernst Kühnel, Francesco Botticini, Strasbourg, 1906, pp. 16–17, 37, pl. XI (3). Bernard Berenson, The Florentine Painters of the Renaissance, 3d ed., New York and London, 1909, p. 119. J. A. Crowe and G. B. Cavalcaselle, A History of Painting in Italy, 2d ed, vol. 4, ed. R. Langton Douglas, New York, 1911, p. 297 n. 1. Raimond van Marle, The Development of the Italian Schools of Painting, vol. 13, 1931, p. 398 (ill.). Bernard Berenson, Italian Pictures of the Renaissance,…
Read the full account in the museum source.
Raffaello Botticini (1474–after 1520) was an Italian Renaissance painter active in Florence and its environs.
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