Uffizi gallery paintings
The Uffizi gallery is a prominent art museum located in the historic Centre of Florence (declared World Heritage Site by UNESCO in 1982 ), Italy. One of the most important Italian Museums, and the most visited. It is also one of the largest and best known in the world, and holds a collection of priceless works, particularly from the period of the Italian Renaissance. Adoration of the Magi by Leonardo da Vinci . The Virgin Mary and child are depicted in the foreground and form a triangle shape with the Magi kneeling in adoration. In the background on the left is the ruin of a pagan building, on which workmen can be seen, apparently repairing it. On the right are men on horseback fighting and a sketch of a rocky landscape. This is perhaps one of Leonardo da Vinci's strangest and most fertile compositions. By combining figures of pleading old men and armed horsemen, he transformed a banal biblical subject into a scene from human history. Doni Tondo by Michelan...