PAINTING ON TABLE VENETO CRETESE "NATIVITY WITH WORSHIP OF THE MAGI" - END XVI CENTURY
The splendid Nativity with Adoration of the Magi proposed, executed on wood in the second half of the sixteenth century, is articulated around the figures of the Child Jesus with Mary; behind them is San Giuseppe, while the three Magi are portrayed on the left. The older one, kneeling in adoration of the Child, has already laid the wreath at the feet of the Virgin, while the second and third await their moment to honor the holy family, with their precious gifts still in their hands. The work is part of the artistic current that today we call 'Veneto Cretese'; it was precisely the Venetian domination that generated the Cretan Renaissance, which made the encounter between d