Adoration of the Magi (early 1440s): Art, History and Details

Adoration of the Magi (early 1440s) is in the Cleveland Museum of Art collection. The museum's creator attribution is Konrad Laib (German).

The work and its context

The museum's open-access catalogue describes the work:

Laib was a German painter who spent most of his career in Austria. Proof that he came to Salzburg at an early age is suggested by the stylistic affinity of many of his works with Salzburg painting, including this one.

Object facts

• Title: Adoration of the Magi
• Date: early 1440s
• Creator attribution: Konrad Laib (German)
• Culture: Germany, born Ensingen, active Austria, 15th century
• Type: Painting
• Technique: oil on panel
• Dimensions: Image: 98 x 61.6 cm (38 9/16 x 24 1/4 in.); Framed: 111 x 75 x 7.5 cm (43 11/16 x 29 1/2 x 2 15/16 in.); Unframed: 100.2 x 64 cm (39 7/16 x 25 3/16 in.)
• Collection: MED - Medieval Art
• Department: Medieval Art
• Accession number: 1936.18

A detail from the museum

A companion piece to this one is in the Freising Seminary in Germany and depicts the Nativity.

Collection credit

Delia E. Holden and L. E. Holden Funds

Further reading listed by the museum

• Österreichisches Museum für Kunst und Industrie. Ausstellung Gotik in Österreich, veranstaltet vom Verein der Museumgreund in Wein im Österreichischen Museum für Kunst und Industrie, 15. September bis 8. November 1926. [Wien]: [Krystall-Verlag], 1926.
• Furlong, George J. "Austrian Gothic Art in Vienna," Burlington Magazine XLIX (1926).
• Pächt, Otto. Os̈terreichische Tafelmalerei der Gotik. Augsburg: Dr. B. Filser, 1929.

View the collection record

See the museum's photographs and full catalogue entry. Catalogue text is reproduced from the Cleveland Museum of Art's open-access data, with HTML formatting removed. This object and its supplied image are designated CC0.