Dissecting Botticelli’s Adoration of the Magi – James Earle

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The scene of the three wise men offering gifts to a newborn Jesus was widely painted during the Renaissance era, so how did painter Sandro Botticelli create a version that’s still well known today? James Earle describes who and what set Botticelli’s Adoration of the Magi apart in the annals of art history.

Lesson by James Earle, animation by Buzzco Associates, inc.

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