Adoration of the Magi – Albert Edelfelt – Beautiful Catholic Art – Archival Quality Rainbow Madonna Descriptive text and image alterations

Descriptive text and image alterations (hence the whole new image) © by Sue Kouma Johnson - Classic Catholic Art

Housed at the great Metropolitan Museum in New York

perhaps his lunch

like this one

The thing about this darling little girl

Adoration of the Magi – Albert Edelfelt – Beautiful Catholic Art – Archival Quality Rainbow Madonna Descriptive text and image alterationsWe love how every artist has their own way of doing a picture. How many pictures have you seen of the Adoration of the Magi, and yet none of them look like this. Albert Edelfelt was one of the great artists of the 19th Century, and he was from Finland. One thing you can say about the Finns, they know what winter is like. And from this picture, we might suppose that winter is often a cozy time for them, as Mary and Jesus look so comfortable in the