Adoration of the Magi (Fra Angelico and Filippo Lippi) wall until his death. These "desci" were typically decorated with allegorical or mythological scenes, while the large tondo was mostly used for religious subjects. But the shape was not found in paintings for churches, and may have carried a deliberate suggestion of a commission for a palace. Apart from the tondo being discussed, another with a loosely similar composition showing the "Adoration of the Magi", by Domenico Veneziano (now Gemäldegalerie, Berlin) is probably a Medici commission of c. 1439–1442; it may also be another painting recorded in the 1492 inventory (though that Magi tondo is there attributed to Pesellino). Among
Adoration of the Magi (tapestry) add a wealth of fine detail not possible in the tapestry version, especially in the clothing. "The Star of Bethlehem" was completed in 1890 and exhibited at the New Gallery, London, in the spring of 1891 before being sent on to the Birmingham Museum & Art Gallery, where it remains. Adoration of the Magi (tapestry) The Adoration of the Magi is a Morris & Co. tapestry depicting the story in Christianity of the Three Kings who were guided to the birthplace of Jesus by the star of Bethlehem. It is sometimes called "The Star of Bethlehem" or simply "The Adoration."