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Leonardo_da_Vinci_Adoration_of_the_Magi.jpg Adoration Of the Magi Uffizi Gallery, Florence The Adoration of the Magi measures a sizeable nine feet by eight feet. Leonardo was commissioned in 1480 to paint this work for the main altar of the monastery of San Donato a Scopeto, near Florence. He was to complete it within thirty months, but it remained largely unfinished and was left behind in Flor..

Collections of the Uffizi Collections of the Uffizi 2 Google Earth‎ > ‎Italy on Google Earth‎ > ‎Florence on Google Earth and in pictures‎ > ‎Uffizi‎ > ‎Collections of the UffiziAdoration of the Magi (Filippino Lippi)The Adoration of the Magi is a painting by the Italian Renaissance painter Filippino Lippi. It is signed and dated at 1496. It is housed in the Uffizi of..

12784-perspectival-study-of-the-adoration-leonardo-da-vinci.jpg In this study in central perspective, Leonardo worked out a background for the Adoration of the Magi. In the centre at the front there is already an indication of how Leonardo intended to achieve a connection between the perspectival space and the figural space, for he has sketched in rocks and grasses. In the panel he took this so..