![]() ![]() On the left, Saint John the Baptist is kneeling and pointing to the Madonna. ![]() There are so many saints in this Adoration that it is not easy to make out the three Magi. Vasari writes about the painting: "In the church of the Innocenti he painted in tempera a much-admired picture of the Magi, containing some fine heads and varied physiognomies of people both young and old, notably a head of the Virgin, displaying all the modesty, beauty and grace which art can impart to the Mother of God". In 1917 it was transferred to the Hospital's museum. ![]() The painting remained over the altar until 1786, when the inside of the church was restored and the altarpiece placed in the wall behind the altar. The latter had been executed by the carpenter Francesco Bartolo on designs by Giuliano da Sangallo, while the scenes of the predella are the work of one of Ghirlandaio's pupils, Bartolomeo di Giovanni. The prior of the church, Francesco di Giovanni Tesori, also commissioned the predella with stories of the Virgin and the great cornice of the altarpiece. The picture was intended for the main altar of the Spedale degli Innocenti, a foundling hospital. The Francesco di Giovanni Tesori, the prior of an orphanage ordered a panel painting of the Adoration of the Magi from Ghirlandaio. In 1485 Domenico Ghirlandaio received the commission for the Adoration of the Magi for the main altar in the church of the Spedale degli Innocenti. ![]() Domenico Ghirlandaio | The Adoration of the Magi ![]()
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