Copy after Hugo van der Goes – The Adoration of the Magi – The Metropolitan Museum of Art https://www.metmuseum.org/art/collection/search/436523
This composition, in which half-length figures of the three magi are viewed behind a fictive arcade, offering their gifts to the Christ Child—an event celebrated in the Church as the Feast of Epiphany (January 6)—conforms to the rising popularity in the Netherlands for close-up devotional paintings that put the viewer in a direct relationship with the event depicted
In the early sixteenth century, Antwerp was the economic hub of western Europe.
