jan 1, 1439 - Adoration of the Magi Domenico Veneziano

Description:

1439/41 - Tondo with a DEVOTIONAL purpose (probably exectuted for the Medici as Domenico was under the Medici patronage)

Three dimensionality and detailed background:
Backyard influenced by FLEMISH art -> same backgound details as Van Eyck, for example

Naturalistic position of the horses
'Lenticolare' effect

- Comparison with Gentile da Fabriano, Adoration of the Magi, 1423, Florence, Gallerie degli
Uffizi (commissioned by the rich banker Palla Strozzi for his family chapel in Santa Trinita):
- ↳ Fabriano: Altarpiece → International Gothic →Attention for precious textiles, gold, frontal
figures
- ↳The figure seen from the back at the center of Veneziano's work shows the attempt to use
space in another way
- ↳Fabriano usa more ornaments and details than Veneziano
- ↳The landscape in Fabriano is full of details but it is more flat, like a curtain, and the one by
Veneziano is different: one element used by Veneziano is the tree, closer to us, that shows that
there is a section wich is far away and another one which is closer.
- ↳ We see the details in Veneziano's landscape also with these tiny and small buildings: these
details are called “lenticolari” in Italian - that you need a lens to see

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