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Adoration of the Magi in the Snow

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Adoration of the Magi in the Snow

Artist Pieter Bruegel the Elder

Year 1563

Medium oil on oak panel

Dimensions 35 cm × 55 cm (14 in
× 22 in)

Location Am Römerholz, Winterthur

The Adoration of the Magi in the Snow or (Adoration of the Magi in a


Winter Landscape) is a painting in oils on oak panel of 1563, by Pieter Bruegel the
Elder, now in the Oskar Reinhart Collection Am Römerholz in Winterthur,
Switzerland. With two Italian exceptions, it is thought to be the first depiction of
falling snow in a Western painting, the snowflakes boldly shown by dots of white
across the whole scene,[1] added when the work was otherwise completed. [2]
The very common subject of the Adoration of the Magi, showing the visit of the
three Biblical Magi to the baby Jesus and his parents, is given a resolutely down to
earth treatment, set in a contemporary Netherlandish village. [3] The weather is dull,
the size of the painting relatively small, and the figures all well wrapped-up, making
some details more easily seen in the numerous early copies, many by Bruegel's
son Pieter Brueghel the Younger. These generally show snow on the ground, but not
actually falling. It was Bruegel's second painting of the subject. [4]

Copy by Pieter Brueghel the Younger, Museo Correr,


Venice
At 35 cm × 55 cm (14 in × 22 in) it is considerably smaller than most of Bruegel's
other examples of "the crowded, high-angle, small-figure compositions of his middle
years",[5] mostly with crowds of figures in a village setting. These are mostly over
three times higher, at between 110 and 120 cm high. Like many of Bruegel's
paintings, it is signed and dated, but the date, in Roman numerals in the bottom left
corner, is hard to read, though 1563 is now generally accepted. [6]
Description

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