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Christmas in Painting: Albrecht Durer

Albrecht Durer, Adoration of the Magi, 1504 (Uffizi Gallery, Florence, Italy)

Contrary to many precedent and following artists who depicted the Magi presenting their gifts in the dark surroundings of the stables, Durer imagined the scene en plein air and in daylight.

 

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