The Annunciation and the Three Kings at Epiphany

A numismatic look… at the Gothic, and Renaissance and Baroque galleries
Saint Gregory’s Mass
Altar frontal of the Corpus Christi
The Annunciation and the Three Kings at Epiphany
Saint Eligius
Altarpiece of St. Anthony the Abbot
Altarpiece of the Saints John
Embrace at the Golden Gate
Mourning over the dead Christ
St. Lucy giving alms
Altarpiece of the St. Johns de Vinaixa
Martyrdom of St. Lucy at the Stake
St. Vincent in the bonfire
Princess Eudoxia before the Tomb of Saint Stephen
The Beheading of Saint Baudilus
Paintings from the doors of the organ from La Seu d’Urgell cathedral
Death of Saint Vincent
Saint Candidus
Domitian and Tiberius
Doors of the altarpiece of Saint Eligius
Expulsion of the Traders from the Temple
Return of “Il Bucintoro” on Ascension Day
Saint Cecilia
Portrait of Henry III, Count of Nassau
Portrait of Charles II
The Ill-Matched Couple
Children begging
Bernat de Quintaval Distributes his Riches to the Poor
The Annunciation and the Three Kings at Epiphany
 

The Annunciation and the Three Kings at Epiphany

 

The Annunciation and the Three Kings at Epiphany

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Among the gifts offered by the Magi to the Christ-child at Epiphany, according to the evangelical accounts, gold is prominent and, for that reason, there was no more opportune way for showing it than to represent it in monetized form: in this case, as gold florins of Florence, or, perhaps, of Aragón, within a beautiful eucharistic cup. Jesus, in some variations of the scene from the same period, not only accepts the cup, but picks up one of the coins, or blesses them, thus legitimizing their use, such as is thus already usually presented by the cross on one side of the coin.

 

The Annunciation and the Three Kings at Epiphany, Circle of Ferrer and Arnau Bassa, c. 1347-1360

Room 21

 

The Annunciation and the Three Kings at Epiphany