Adoration of the Magi
School of Nottingham
15th century
Medium
Alabaster with paint and gilding
Dimensions
Overall: 15 7/8 x 10 3/16 x 2 1/4 in. (40.3 x 25.9 x 5.7 cm)
Classification
Sculpture-Stone|Sculpture-Alabaster
Culture
British
Department
Medieval Art
Museum
Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York, NY
Credit
Rogers Fund, 1911
Accession Number
12.15
Tags
MenJesusVirgin Mary
About the Artist
School of Nottingham
**School of Nottingham** The School of Nottingham, a prolific workshop tradition of alabaster carvers based in Nottingham and surrounding Midlands areas like South Derbyshire, flourished from the fourteenth to the early sixteenth century, with its peak in the fifteenth. Quarrying soft gypsum alabaster locally, these anonymous image-makers—known as alabastermen, kervers, or marblers—produced thous...