“The Adoration of the Kings” has been virtually unseen since the 1950s, when it first came to light. It was acquired by collector J.C.H. Heldring in Amsterdam in 1955. His widow sold it to a ...

Unless you are a miserly curmudgeon, such as Charles Dickens imagined as the protagonist of his famous Christmas tale, the likelihood is that you have a favorite Old Master painting that depicts ...

The painting is titled "The Adoration of the Kings" and its currently thought to have been painted in 1628. The dark, oil-based painting shows the meeting between the three wise men and baby Jesus.

A detail of proto-Renaissance “Adoration of the Kings” by Puccio di Simone from 1353. Workshop of Jan van Hemessen’s “Young Woman Playing a Clavichord,” c. 1530 at the Hyde’s ...