The Adoration of the Kings
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About this painting
The gold in this picture is in the wrong place. The kings' gifts only look like gold — they are paint. The haloes, and the light coming off the Christ Child, are real shell gold, and they alone glow in the dark of the stable. Dolci inscribed the back of the canvas in his own hand, recording the commission in 1649, when he was thirty-three. He is in the picture too: the man in the red hat, peering round the door at the far right.
Sources: The National Gallery, London, 'The Adoration of the Kings', NG6523, 1649; read 2026-08-27.
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), from the project’s own corpus at data/bible_drc.js
Printed on demand. Public-domain masterwork, reproduced from a 4,226 px master of the original. The whole image is printed — never cropped to fit the sheet — so every sheet carries an archival margin, and the dimensions and resolution listed above are the ones you receive.