The Adoration of the Kings

Jacopo di Cione's Adoration of the Kings, painted around 1370, belongs to a major altarpiece cycle produced by the Cione workshop for a Florentine church. The Epiphany subject was among the most popular in Trecento Florence, allowing artists to display rich textiles, exotic figures, and courtly pageantry within a devotional framework. Now in the National Gallery, London, the panel reflects the workshop's mastery of complex multi-figure narrative composition.

Painted in egg tempera on panel with elaborate gold tooling, the scene deploys a processional composition with richly patterned draperies, careful tonal modeling of flesh, and detailed textile rendering characteristic of the Cione workshop.