With our warmest Christmas wishes, Haltadefinizione this year begins an important tradition, offering its followers a digital Christmas present: as of today you will find online the high-definition image of one of the most mysterious paintings by Leonardo, the Adoration of the Magi. The work was owned by the powerful Medici family by 1670, and is held in the Uffizi Gallery in Florence next to Leonardo’s celebrated Annunciation and the Baptism of Jesus painted together with Andrea del Verrocchio.
This unfinished painting, revolutionary in its compositional layout, shows different degrees of finishing in different areas. It remained a sketch until 1482 after Leonardo went to Milan. This makes it even more interesting to examine the creative process in high-definition, beginning with the first drawing.