There are many paintings of the Adoration of the Magi but this is a very famous one by Fra Angelico and Fra Fillipo Lippi dating to about 1450.
Some triptyches are just too large to get into a single shot. So here are three pictures of the one triptych.
All I can say is— those are some mean looking Gospel writers, and saints, or saints and saints.
The painting below would have made St. Paul hopping mad. It is entitled St. Paul with a group of worshippers by Bernardo Datti in 1333. In the first place, Paul didn’t carry around a sword and threaten violence. He took the sermon on the mount seriously (see Rom. 12 and 13, the second half of each chapter). This looks more like the Archangel Michael. In the next place, no saint should be worshipped, and Paul clearly rejected such practices when he was in Lystra (see Acts 13-14). In the third place… how come the worshippers are so miniscule?
Finally, a painting of an elderly St. Mark—
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