Why it matters
Dürer combined northern and Italian conventions in this Adoration, painted for Frederick the Wise's castle church in Wittenberg. Heinrich Wölfflin called it 'the first completely lucid painting in the history of German art'.
Did you know?
- It was painted between Dürer's two trips to Italy.
- Christian II of Saxony gave it to Emperor Rudolf II in 1603.
- In 1792 the Uffizi acquired it in exchange for a Fra Bartolomeo.
Based on the Wikipedia article Adoration of the Magi (Dürer) (CC BY-SA 4.0).
