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The Adoration of the Magi
c. 1560 · Oil on canvas · Pinacoteca Ambrosiana (Veneranda Biblioteca Ambrosiana), Milano
For the Epiphany · 6 January
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A king kneels in red and bends to the Child, and the Child leans from His Mother's lap to meet him. Our Lady looks down at her Son, not at the king; Saint Joseph sits back in the shadow. Behind them the whole road has arrived: men carrying gifts, a white horse, a rider in a turban, and in the dirt a small dog. The Ambrosiana records that Cardinal Ippolito II d'Este ordered the painting as a present for Henry II of France and Diane de Poitiers, and that its frame carries their HD monogram among the crescent moons, bows and arrows of Diana. It never reached them. The dog, once painted over as irreverent, was later uncovered. Irenaeus read the myrrh as the gift for one who would die and be buried. Titian keeps the road behind them still arriving.
Sources: Mary read as pensive/sad, sensing the tragic destiny of her son; Christ Child blessing while gazing intently at the king, the compositional focus · Veneranda Biblioteca Ambrosiana, Pinacoteca Ambrosiana, masterpiece record, 'Adoration of the Magi — Titian' · Corroborated across Ambrosiana's page, thearkofgrace.com, and artsupp.com; traceable to Federico Borromeo, De pictura sacra (1624), trans. Kenneth S. Rothwell Jr. (I Tatti Renaissance Library, Harvard University Press, 2010) · Irenaeus of Lyons, Adversus Haereses (Against Heresies) III.9.2, Roberts–Donaldson translation
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)