Description:
Website companion to a 2006 exhibition of Leonardo da Vinci's preparatory drawing for the painting "Adoration of the Magi," an altar-piece commissioned in 1481 by the monks of San Donato a Scopeto, near Florence. Compares the preparatory drawing and the wood panel painting, and the images in visible light, ultraviolet light, and in the infrared range. From the Library of Congress. |