The Art History Mystery Challenge No. 8 Jacopo Bassano - The Three Magi

The Art History Mystery Challenge

Welcome to our totally disorganized art museum! The challenge is to help us identify all the masterworks in our virtual museum. We'll post a piece of the painting and one clue to get you started. Can you name the artist and the title of the painting?

Pieces of the painting and clues to the artist's identity will be added every 24 hours until we have a winner, then the next painting in our collection will be posted. Feel free to use any resources at your disposal to help in your search. Challenge winners will receive a shiny award badge that we will add below their profile image. You will retain this award until someone else wins the award.

The AHM Challenge is open to all forum members, not just ws oil painters, so join in and have some fun with us!

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Clue = Nationality - Italian

Clue = Movement - High Renaissance

Haven't had time to really dig for this, but the muscled arm and style of the face remind me of Michelangelo ...but the horse and the cloud look like Leonardo - call me clueless!

Callie this is one that's fairly difficult. I never heard of him but maybe the next clue will help.



Clue = Born in 1510

The Three Magi

Author : JACOPO BASSANO
Date :c. 1562
Technique :Oil on canvas, 92,3 x 117,5 cm
Type :religious
Form :painting
Location :Kunsthistorisches Museum, Vienna

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jacopo_Bassano

Here's a more thorough biography:

http://www.ibiblio.org/wm/paint/auth/bassano/

(I can't "swipe" the picture from the site I found it on)

Found another one:

Good going Callie! That was a tough one. Thank you for the information and full image of the painting.