Dozens of people line up around a shed-like structure and around stone ruins to kneel before a woman and baby at the lower center of this circular painting. All the people have pale skin.

The Adoration of the Magi

Fra Angelico (Italian, 1395–1455)

Date: c. 1440/1460
Medium: tempera on poplar panel
Museum: National Gallery of Art, Washington, accession 1952.2.2. See the museum’s record
Credit: Samuel H. Kress Collection

Public domain image courtesy of the National Gallery of Art (Open Access, CC0).

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Hang it

Pick the furniture and a print size to see it to scale on your wall.

Where Print size

Print: 24 × 24 in, filling the paper
Center: 67¼ in (171 cm) from the floor
Above the mantel: 6 in (15 cm) from the mantel to the frame
Ideal width: 44 to 50 in over a 66 in mantel
Why this height: Centered at eye level, this frame would not sit 4 to 8 in above the mantel, so the 6 in gap sets the height.

24 × 24 in square print (61 × 61 cm), centered 67¼ in from the floor, 6 in above the mantel. Drawn to scale on a 12 × 8 ft wall.

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Print it

Standard paper sizes that keep this painting’s proportions, the frames that fit them, and how sharp each one prints.

Paper	Filling the paper	Printed whole	Frame	Frame with a 2 in mat	Frame with a 3 in mat	Sharpness
12 × 12 in	no trim	12 × 12 in	12 × 12 in ready-made	16 × 16 in ready-made	18 × 18 in custom	1972 dpi, crisp up close
16 × 16 in	no trim	16 × 16 in	16 × 16 in ready-made	20 × 20 in ready-made	22 × 22 in custom	1479 dpi, crisp up close
20 × 20 in	no trim	20 × 20 in	20 × 20 in ready-made	24 × 24 in ready-made	26 × 26 in custom	1183 dpi, crisp up close
24 × 24 in	no trim	24 × 24 in	24 × 24 in ready-made	28 × 28 in custom	30 × 30 in custom	986 dpi, crisp up close

Sharpness is worked out from the largest file the museum offers. Above 300 dpi a print holds up at arm’s length; 150 dpi is plenty for a picture seen from across a sofa.

Download

Free for any use, including commercial: this image is public domain (CC0).

Thumbnail (WebP) 560 × 560 px from Room Paintings
Web image 843 × 843 px from National Gallery of Art
Print file 2,000 × 2,000 px from National Gallery of Art
Original file 23,667 × 23,667 px from National Gallery of Art
The museum’s record of this painting National Gallery of Art

Public domain image courtesy of the National Gallery of Art (Open Access, CC0). You may print, share, change and sell it without asking. Read what that means on our image license page, and how to get a good result in how to print a public-domain painting.