Adoration of the Magi 1626

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Adoration of the Magi 1626: Peter Paul Rubens

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Work Overview: Adoration of the Magi
Peter Paul Rubens
Date: c.1626 - 1629
Style: Baroque
Genre: religious painting
Media: oil, panel
Dimensions: 219 x 283 cm
Location: Louvre, Paris, France

LONDON, June 15—Rubens's “Adoration of the Magi,” one of the world's most famous paintings, has been defaced in King's College Chapel, Cambridge. The initials of the Irish. Republican Army, I.R.A., were scratched in letters two feet high across the center of the large painting.

The dean of the chapel, the Rev. Michael Till, said the scratches appeared to have been made by a coin drawn across the center of, the big painting, which measures feet by 10 feet.

“Although the marks do not break the pigment, the surface has been broken and it will be an expensive job to repair,” he said.

A tourist spotted the defacement of the painting which stands at the east end of the chapel, today as the police were investigating a chapel burglary.

Intruders had entered the chapel last night, forced open a 15th century oak coffer, in which tourists place offerings, and stolen some coins.

The painting was given to King's College, a part of Cambridge University, in 1960 by Maj. Alfred Allnatt, an industrialist who bought it two years earlier for the then record sum in this country of $770,000. It is only possible to speculate about the value of the masterpiece today.

The “Adoration” was painted in oil on wood in 1634 by Rubens as an altarpiece for the Convent of the White Nuns at Louvain, Belgium.

Experts consider it, to be an outstanding example of the artist's genius in executing large‐scale painting.

King's College spent $ 100,000 on a major renovation to give the painting a suitable home. Part of the chapel floor was lowered and central heating was installed to keep the painting, above the high altar, from deteriorating.

College authorities said that they were keeping an open mind about the perpetrators and did not assume that the defacement had anything to do with the troubles in Ireland.

This is the third attack on art treasures in Britain and Ireland this year. In February, a Vermeer painting “The Guitar Player,” was stolen from Kenwood house in London. It was found in May propped against a gravestone in a churchyard.

In April, 19 paintings were stolen from the home of Sir Alfred Beit near Dublin. They were all found the following month in a remote house near Cork.

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