# Adoration of the Kings [View the canonical artwork record]() ## Artwork - Artist: [MURA, Francesco de]() - Date: 1701-1750 - Technique: Fresco ## Commentary Francesco de Mura painted the Adoration of the Kings in the apse calotte of the church of Nunziatella. This scene is one of the important subjects in Marian iconography. It is a somewhat unusual subject for an apse calotte. It is unknown why the subject was given such a prominent placement. De Mura's scene has unusual features that were in part required because of its position in the apse calotte and in part the result of his interpretive enhancement of the event with scenes and motifs from everyday life. The latter occupy the entire foreground of the composition. ## Related artworks - [Achilles among the Daughters of Lycomedes]() - [Adoration of the Kings \(detail\)]() - [Adoration of the Kings \(detail\)]() - [Assumption of the Virgin Attended by the Apostles \(detail\)]() - [Assumption of the Virgin Attended by the Apostles]() - [Caritas]() - [Christ and the Woman Taken in Adultery]() - [Disciplines of the Olympic Games in Antiquity]() - [Fides]() - [Holy Family with the Infant St John The Baptist]() - [Horatius Slaying His Sister after the Defeat of the Curiatii]() - [Personification of Abundantia]() ## Attribution [Web Gallery of Art]()