The Adoration of the Magi, 1526, Oil on wood, 40 1/2 x 31 1/2 in. (102. 9 x 80 cm), Paintings, Quentin Metsys (Netherlandish, Leuven 1466?1530 Kiel), This intentionally claustrophobic composition is characteristic of the Antwerp Mannerist style of the first half of the sixteenth century. The scene is viewed up close, with half-length, gesticulating figures separated from the viewer by a fictive ledge