The painting was later acquired by King Philip II of Spain, who kept it in his austere palace-monastery of El Escorial. In the 19th century, it was transferred to its present location at the Prado ...

Rubens painted in the course of his life, not less than sixteen pictures of the Adoration of the Wise men; all of which are alike as to the general composition, but differ in the details. It is ...

Jewish law permits several forms of slavery, but as Maimonides recorded in the “Laws of Slaves” (9:8) in his “Mishneh Torah,” the “early wise men” had their servants fed before they ...

The Wise Men navigated their camels to Roman Palestine from somewhere farther east by starlight, which did not fail them. Their legendary names—Gaspard, Melchior, and Balthazar—are less familiar ...

The Three Wise Men flew over Seville in a hot air balloon on Tuesday morning, after traditional street parades on the eve of the Epiphany were cancelled throughout Spain to avoid drawing big ...

If Matthew's wise men actually undertook a journey to search for a newborn king, the bright star didn't guide them; it only told them when to set out. And they wouldn't have found an infant ...