NOTES ON BOTTICELLI’S UFFIZI ADORATION OF THE MAGI

March 29, 2023: In light of new information, some of the listed posts need revising. I will do so at a later date.

This version of the Adoration of the Magi is by the Italian Renaissance master Sandro Botticelli. The work is on display at the Uffizi in Florence and is said to date from 1475 or 1476. It is also claimed that the painting was commissioned by Gaspare di Zanobi del Lama for his funerary chapel in Santa Maria Novella, Florence. Botticelli produced several paintings on this theme, some say as many as eight. This version depicts several members of the Medici family, notably Cosimo de’ Medici, the Italian banker and politician, in the guise of the Magus kneeling in front of the Virgin Mary and Child Jesus. Although there are varied opinions as to the identities of the other Medici figures, most art historians tend to agree that the painter, Sandro Botticelli, is the standing figure on the right of the frame, wearing the ochre gown and looking out to the viewer.

This list provides links to posts and notes on my blog about Botticelli’s Uffizi Adoration of the Magi. More to be added in time.

LAST UDATE: LAYING DOWN THE LAW, 30 JULY 2019

BOTTICELLI’S UFFIZI ADORATION… NOT BEFORE 1480
RENDER UNTO CAESAR
ASSASSINATION OF GIULIANO DE’ MEDICI
LEONARDO’S HORSE-HEAD LYRE
THREE MEN AND A HORSE
HAT TIP TO LEONARDO
NOT GASPARE, THEN WHO?
CHICKEN OR THE EGG?
THE HAT AND THE CROWN
A CELESTIAL MUSICIAN
BIRDS OF A FEATHER…
WHEN BOTTICELLI PAINTED LEONARDO
TWO FOR THE PRICE OF ONE
ON THE TRAIL OF LEONARDO
WHEN BOTTICELLI ‘GOOSED’ HUGO VAN DER GOES
WHEN BOTTICELLI WENT TO LEUVEN
BOTTICELLI’S FRIEZE OF ARTISTS
WALL TO WALL ARTISTS
TOGETHER IN ECLECTIC DREAMS
HEADS OF STATE
LEONARDO’S JUDGE AND JURY
LAYING DOWN THE LAW
• more to follow…