LARGE STUDY "THE DEPARTURE
OF THE MAGI BY BOAT, "
SIGNED R. DIERICKS
(Belgium, 20th c.)
Magos Foundation Collection
THE ESCAPE OF THE WISE MEN BY BOAT
The return of the Magi by sea to escape Herod’s wrath was born of the interpretation of the Old Testament prophecy: “Behold, kings were gathered together and advancing at once, they saw, and being astonished, they fled in panic. There a trembling seized them, a shiver of childbirth; it was the east wind (East) which breaks the ships of Tharsis” psalm 48.5-8