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Da Vinci's 'Magi' Hides Master's Original Vision; Photos
Topic Started: Nov 18 2010, 03:53 AM (2,232 Views)
Robby
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I wonder how many other are like this one?

http://news.discovery.com/history/da-vinci-adoration-magi.html

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Duke of Milan huh? Interesting. What is the baby playing with? The top of a head? Maybe a reptile type? Looks like a reptile body back behind that center group, maybe the body of the head. Is that a statue of liberty type female in the group to the left? Her head wear looks like it. Odd looking character top right too. Body like Humpty Dumpty. Mary's dress is a bit odd too. So is her left foot. Well, guess it's not finished though huh, shouldn't read too much into it. Leonardo might have fixed that foot.

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One of Leonardo Da Vinci's strangest paintings, "The Adoration of the Magi" was commissioned for the altar of the monastery of San Donato a Scopeto, near Florence, in 1481. The work was never finished.

In 1482, a 30-year-old Leonardo (1452-1519) abandoned the project to accept the post of court artist to the Duke of Milan.

Now on display at the Uffizi Gallery in Florence, the painting is considered one of Leonardo's most intriguing works.

Mentioned by Dan Brown in "The Da Vinci Code," it depicts the New Testament's account of the three wise men (or Magi) paying homage to the newborn Jesus and his mother, the Virgin Mary, in a bizarre landscape made of struggling horsemen, ruins and odd faces.

The nativity scene is rather unusual: no oxen, donkey or stable. Even St. Joseph is missing. Much of the foreground is obscured with strokes of monochrome paint. This unusual painting was enough to inspire Dan Brown's conspiracy theory that the original drawing was hidden.
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Actually, this looks more like the head of the snake.
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I don't know what that guy to the right is doing with his mouth.
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Nice hand.
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Horseman with... what looks like unfinished figures to the left there.
Unless they were meant to look like translucent beings like those predominantly in the Milan Cathedral pics.
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Hi Yass,

It's Mary's toes that freaks me out .... Finished or not.... when looking at this picture my feeling and thoughts are that everyone around them are all ghosts fighting over to be feed!

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didnt we learn to look for 'pointing' in Leonardos paintings?
i thought his works all have this in common...
place a mirror on the pointed hand and it shows a hidden picture.

yes, her feet are really abnormal, but so is the fellow who is eating from the hand of the baby jesus.
he has sharp pointy feet.
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