A warm welcome to this year’s Advent in Art series, where we join thousands of others in contemplating artistic works while we wait, wait, wait for Christmas. For an introduction to this series, and He Qi, the artist featured in 2014, please see the first post, on the Annunciation. Week 4: The Magi Everyone is focused on the baby in this painting – unlike last week’s Nativity, where Joseph was on guard and the shepherds looking up at the angel. Joseph isn’t even present in this painting, which surprised me. Given the disturbing Herod storyline – the King orders soldiers to kill all babies under two (not just newborns) in order to eliminate any competition for his throne – and the
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