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Filippino Lippi (c. 1406 – 1469)Galleria degli Uffizi, Firenze

Cathedral of Chartres The Incarnation Window (1150) detail left to right from bottom: Annunciation, Visitation, Nativity, Angels appear to Shepherds, Herod meets the Magi (2 panels), Adoration of the Magi and their Departure

Cathedral of Chartres The Incarnation Window (1150) detail

Circle of Apostolos Krezias The Adoration of the shepherds. 2nd h. 18 c. Benaki museum

Bartolomé Esteban Murillo (1617–1682Madrid, Museo del Prado Madrid

Claudio Coello (1642-1693), Museo del Prado Madrid

Camillo Procaccin 1896 Chiesa di S. Alessandro di Milano

Carlo Dolci 1649, National Gallery London Pietro di Giovanni d'Ambrogio 1445, Museo del Prado Madrid

Journey of the Magi (top) and Adoration of the Magi (side) on a Limoges champlevé enamel chasse, ca 1200c (Musée de Cluny, Paris)

Adoration of the Child 1534 by Perino del Vaga National Gallery of Art, Washington, DC, USA Carl Heinrich Bloch (1834 – 1890)

Pietro da Cartona 1658, Prado Museum Madrid Mateo Cerezo (1637 – 1666) Prado Museum

Gaudi Sagrada Familia

Gentile da Fabriano 1423 Galleria Uffizi Firenze

Gentile da Fabriano 1423 (details) Galleria Uffizi Firenze

Juan Bautista Maíno (1578 - 1649) Museo del Prado Madrid

Correggio Adorazione dei Magi, 1517 Milano, Pinacoteca di Brera

Abraham Hondius Adoration of the shepherds 1663Rijksmuseum Amsterdam

Zurbaran 1638-40 Musée des Beaux-Arts, Grenoble

Vitruvio Alberi, 1589-1590 Palazzo Altemps Rome

James Tissot The Journey of the Magi 1894

Cathedral of Our Lady of the Angels, Los Angeles,1920

Jan van Eyck, 1426-27 - The Ghent Altarpiece - (detail)

Stained glass windows of Cologne Cathedral (Bayernfenster)

The most celebrated work of art in the cathedral is the Shrine of the Three Kings, a large gilded sarcophagus dating from the 13th century, and the largest reliquary in the Western world. It is traditionally believed to hold the remains of the Three Wise Men, whose bones and 2,000-year-old clothes were discovered at the opening of the shrine in 1864.

Cologne, The Altarpiece of the Three Kings by Stephan Lochner (1400 – 1452)

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Sound: Christmas Songs – Trei crai - Ştefan Hruşcã O, ce veste minunatã! – Roberto Alagna 2011