The figures are all painted to the same scale, irrespective of their status and each person reacts in their own way to the event unfolding before them. A gathering of local people watch this rare scene through a gap in the wall. Looking closely at the composition the Monforte Altarpiece depicts the Virgin, the baby Jesus and Joseph in the ruins of a Palace and shows them being discovered by the Three Kings and their followers. The two wings from this work have been lost and a group of flying angels has also been cut away from the top panel. Like the Portinari Altarpiece, the Monforte triptych was created on a large scale and today only the vast, horizontal central panel, featuring the theme of the adoration of the Magi, remains. Named after the town in which it was housed the Monforte Altarpiece could originally be found in a college that was home to a group of Spanish Jesuits. The Monforte Altarpiece is Hugo van der Goes' most celebrated work from his early career.
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