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GHIRLANDAIO, Domenico: Adoration of the Magi

🖼 Adoration of the Magi, 1486-90
Fresco, width 450 cm
Florence, Italy

Golden light illuminates a procession of richly dressed figures approaching the Christ Child in an expansive Florentine landscape. Ghirlandaio masterfully blends religious devotion with contemporary pageantry, embedding portraits of powerful Medici patrons among the biblical characters in this dynastic statement.

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