The Adoration of the Magi is a painting Leonardo never finished \u2013 and that is exactly what makes it unique. On the large wooden panel we see precisely what finished masterpieces never show us: how Leonardo thought. Our hand-painted reproduction on canvas brings this unusual, brown-and-gold image into your home, painted in oil on canvas.<\/p>\n
In 1481 the Augustinian monks of San Donato a Scopeto, outside Florence, commissioned an altarpiece from Leonardo. He began on a grand scale: he prepared a panel of 246 \u00d7 243 cm and drew onto it, in charcoal, ink and watercolour, a composition of several dozen figures. In 1482 he left the whole thing behind and went to Milan, to the court of Ludovico Sforza. The painting stayed in that state, and since 1670 it has hung in the Uffizi in Florence.<\/p>\n
At the centre sits the Virgin with the Child, and around her a crowd presses in a semicircle: the magi bearing gifts, horses, people straining to see. Behind them rise the ruins of an ancient building and a scene of cavalry battle \u2013 an unusual, almost restless backdrop for a sacred event. It is this sheer quantity of movement that makes the work more modern than anything else of its time.<\/p>\n
Because the work was never completed, all of Leonardo\u2019s drawing survives beneath the surface. In 2002 Maurizio Seracini made more than 2,400 infrared records of this underdrawing, revealing how densely Leonardo corrected and shifted his figures. Between 2012 and 2017 the Opificio delle Pietre Dure cleaned the painting; after cleaning, Leonardo\u2019s charcoal strokes are clearly visible again. Seracini\u2019s conclusion \u2013 that none of the visible paint is Leonardo\u2019s \u2013 remains contested among scholars and is not generally accepted; we report it as a position, not as fact.<\/p>\n
Every reproduction of The Adoration of the Magi is entirely hand-painted in oil on canvas \u2013 not a print, but a real painting created for you by an experienced artist. It is available in eight sizes, stretched on a wooden frame on request and in a frame from our 3D range. The almost square format and the warm brown-gold range sit well in a study, a library or a living room.<\/p>\n
The Adoration of the Magi \u2013 the greatest unfinished painting of the Renaissance The Adoration of the Magi is a painting Leonardo never finished \u2013 and that is exactly what makes it unique. On the large wooden panel we see precisely what finished masterpieces never show us: how Leonardo thought. […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"featured_media":128084,"template":"","meta":{"_acf_changed":false},"product_brand":[],"product_cat":[9810],"product_tag":[9831,9870,9862,9863],"class_list":["post-128090","product","type-product","status-publish","has-post-thumbnail","product_cat-leonardo-da-vinci","product_tag-da-vinci-en","product_tag-painter","product_tag-reproduction-en","product_tag-reproductions","pa_dimenzija-100-x-100-cm","pa_dimenzija-120-x-120-cm","pa_dimenzija-150-x-150-cm","pa_dimenzija-50-x-50-cm","pa_dimenzija-60-x-60-cm","pa_dimenzija-70-x-70-cm","pa_dimenzija-80-x-80-cm","pa_dimenzija-90-x-90-cm","pa_oblika-vertical","pa_okvir-without-frame","pa_podokvir-without","pa_podokvir-yes","first","onbackorder","purchasable","product-type-variable","has-default-attributes"],"acf":[],"yoast_head":"\n