FRANCESCO DA RIMINI
(active 1320-1348 in Rimini)

The Adoration of the Magi

1333-40
Egg tempera on wood, 58 x 59 cm
Lowe Art Museum, University of Miami, Coral Gables

This panel belonged to an altarpiece. A panel depicting The Vision of the Blessed Clare of Rimini (National Gallery, London) was identified as part of the same altarpiece. This altarpiece is related to another altarpiece executed by a Riminese collaborator of Francesco da Rimini. This altarpiece (Musée Fesch, Ajaccio) consists of similar panels, The Adoration of the Magi (left), The Crucifixion (centre), and The Vision of the Blessed Clare of Rimini (right).

Although the Fesch altarpiece was also attributed to Francesco da Rimini by some critics, there are several differences between the two altarpieces which contradict this assumption.