The Adoration of the Magi

The Virgin sits on a golden cloth at the center of a crumbling stone building, holding the infant Jesus as the Magi approach with ornate vessels. Above them, four angels suspended in the air hold a broad green canopy, while Saint Joseph kneels to the left and onlookers peer through the ruins. The background reveals a meticulously painted landscape with a distant city and pastoral scenes under a clear sky.

This work illustrates the Epiphany, or the manifestation of the divine to the secular world, a concept later aligned with the 'prisca theologia' where ancient pagan wisdom recognizes the arrival of the Logos. The ruined architecture serves as an allegorical representation of the decay of the Old Covenant in the presence of the New.