Keywords: Jordaens Adoration of the Magi (detail).jpg Artwork Creator Jacob Jordaens Adoration of the Magi ca 1617 Oil on canvas Church of Saint John the Baptist Skalbmierz accession number object history ProvenanceEvent 1903 purchase Private collection Saint Petersburg credit line Identifed as an early work of Jacob Jordaens by Roger d'Hulst The laughing African man depicted as one of the Magi is the living proof that only Europeans were under the moderating influence of civilization as according to contemporary European observers they laughed savagely yet innocently aloud hence they were commonly associated with comic roles Johan Verberckmoes 1999 Laughter Jestbooks and Society in the Spanish Netherlands Springer ISBN 1349271764 p 44 http //www niedziela pl/artykul/103743/nd/Wyjatkowy- E2 80 9EPoklon-Trzech-Kroli E2 80 9D www niedziela pl Dariusz Nowacki Magdalena Piwocka 2011 Klejnoty w dawnej Polsce Carta Blanca Grupa Wydawnicza PWN ISBN 9788377051429 p 228 PD-old-100 DEFAULTSORT 1617 circa; Adoration of the Magi Religious paintings by Jacob Jordaens Church of Saint John the Baptist in Skalbmierz 1610s paintings 17th-century paintings of the Adoration of the Magi Baroque paintings of the Adoration of the Magi Laughing in art Africans in 17th-century art |