O'Kane M. The Artist as Reader of the Bible: Visual Exegesis and the Adoration of the Magi

Biblical Interpretation 13, 337-373 p., 2005.Western art history is closely attached to western religious expression. Western artists have correspondingly been made to function as exegetes, preachers, and theologians in communicating messages through biblical stories and ideas. This article uses The Adoration of the Magi as a commentary on the story in Matthew 2.