| Adoration of the Magi | |
| Wikidata: | Q99469915 |
| Artist: | Valerio Castello |
| Year: | circa 1650 |
| Medium: | oil paint on canvas |
| Movement: | Baroque painting Catholic art |
| Subject: | Adoration of the Magi |
| Height Metric: | 122 |
| Width Metric: | 148 |
| Dimensions Ref: | [1] |
| Metric Unit: | cm |
| Museum: | Musée des Beaux-Arts |
| City: | Strasbourg |
| Accession: | before 1914 |
Adoration of the Magi is a circa 1650 religious painting by the Italian Baroque artist from Genoa, Valerio Castello. It is now in the Musée des Beaux-Arts of Strasbourg, France. Its inventory number is 1830.[2]
Adoration of the Magi is today considered as a brilliant example of Ligurian Baroque, and three documented ancient copies have been identified. Strangely enough, the painting had an utterly inconspicuous existence until 2004, when it was identified as a major work by Castello – it had been passed as a "Dutch painting with Italian influences" since 1949.[1] The Strasbourg museum also owns an Adoration of the Magi by Castello's disciple and assistant Bartolomeo Biscaino; that work had been attributed to Castello until 1959.[3]