The theme of Botticelli's "Adoration of the Magi" in which the wise men come to pay homage to the baby Jesus was a common one in renaissance Florence . Botticelli uses many of the techniques we discussed in class to portray a 3 dimensional space. You can see the orthogonals of the sides of the columns receding to one vanishing point in the middle of the painting. Overlapping figures create the sense of the men being one behind another, and the size relationship between the figures in the front being larger than those far away creat a sense of depth. Botticelli also makes use of cooler colors in the mountainous regions of the background to depict atmospheric haze.
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