LITHOGRAPHY PUBLISHED
IN 1800 WITH KING CHARLES VII
OF FRANCE (15th c.)
INCARNATING A MAGUS
(France, 15th c.)
Magos Foundation Collection
EUROPEAN KINGS ARE REPRESENTED AS WISE MEN TO ASSERT THEIR POWER (14th to 15th c.)
From the Middle Ages onwards, coronations were held on January 6, the day of the Epiphany. Charles V of France, Charles VII of France, Edward III of England, and Ferdinand II of Castile, solicited the greatest painters to represent themselves as Magi.