Continuing the series exploring how Christ's image has been shaped over 2,000 years, presented by Neil MacGregor, director of London's National Gallery.

This week MacGregor travels from England to Italy, Germany and Peru to show the many ways in which artists have portrayed the birth of Christ. The image of the wise men adoring the baby Jesus was appropriated over the centuries by the rich and powerful and used to their advantage to portray a special relationship between rulers and Christ or, as in Peru, to bring the conquered people into the Christian world.
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