Adoption
the act of taking a stranger into one's family, as a son or daughter; or the taking of a person, a society, etc., into more intimate relations than formerly existed with another person or society; or the taking as one's own, with or without acknowledgment, an opinion, plan, etc., originating with another; also the selecting one from In law, both ancient and modern, the several courses open to a person's choice. act of taking a stranger into one's family constituted the person so adopted one's heir to all intents and purposes. ADORATION OF THE MAGI, a subrenzo Monaco, representative of the ject treated by great artists, from Lo- Florentine school, early in the 15th cenwho painted it 15 times. Florentine art, Florentine school, early in the 15th cenon this subject, reached its best expreson this subject, reached its best exprespicture, by him, is in the Uffizi, Florence. In this picture, the three kings are portraits of Gosine, Giuliano, and Giovanni de Medici, while the Virgin occupies a hut among ruins and rocks. Botticelli's de Medici, while the Virgin occupies a Uffizi. The entire scene of Tintoretto's, temporary portraits in his painting in the Scuola di San Rocco, at Venice, is of Child. He represents the Venetian lighted by radiance coming from the body school, and his fresco was made famous by Ruskin in his "Stones of Venice."
In Rembrandt's painting, in Buckingham Palace, the Virgin and the Child are the kings and old men; in the distance are camels. The picture by Albert Dürer the kings and old men; in the distance de Peinture, at Brussels, Belgium, is the painting by Rubens. Another of Rubens', in the Museum of Antwerp, Belgium, has ADORNO life-size figures. Paolo Veronese's splendid picture is in the Museum at Dresden. The noted triptych, called the "Dombild," in the Cathedral of Cologne, by Meister Stephan (died 1451), is considered the finest work of the early German school.
Modern painters have also produced excellent works on this subject. Burne- Jones has a tapestry at Exeter College, Oxford. The fresco in the Church of the Incarnation, in New York City, is the work of La Farge.