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    • The Journey of the Magi (fragment), ca. 1435
    Sassetta (Stefano di Giovanni) (Italian, Sienese, ca. 1400–1450)
    Tempera and gold on wood; 8 1/2 x 11 3/4 in. (21.6 x 29.8 cm)
    Maitland F. Griggs Collection, Bequest of Maitland F. Griggs, 1943 (43.98.1)

    This panel originally formed the upper part of an Adoration of the Magi, of which the lower section shows the magi presenting their gifts to the Christ Child (Chigi-Saracini Collection, Siena). The Museum's fragment shows the magi and their attendants on their way to Bethlehem, and is one of Sassetta's most poetic works. The star at the lower right originally hung over the figures of the Madonna and Child.

    This work of art also appears on Connections: Africa , Flux , Mutts , Relics

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    This work has been published in the Museum's Bulletin or Journal. These articles may or may not represent the most current scholarship.
  • Christiansen, Keith "Fourteenth-Century Italian Altarpieces." The Metropolitan Museum of Art Bulletin, v. 40, no. 1 (Summer, 1982).
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    • The Journey of the Magi (fragment), ca. 1435
    Sassetta (Stefano di Giovanni) (Italian, Sienese, ca. 1400–1450)
    Tempera and gold on wood; 8 1/2 x 11 3/4 in. (21.6 x 29.8 cm)
    Maitland F. Griggs Collection, Bequest of Maitland F. Griggs, 1943 (43.98.1)

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