# Adoration of the Magi

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## Artwork

- Artist: [GADDI, Taddeo](<https://beta.wga.hu/artists/gaddi-taddeo-r8a551887777f8d>)
- Date: 1301-1350
- Technique: Fresco

## Commentary

This scene is located at bottom right on the south wall. The cloud of light surrounding a heavenly phenomenon, seen in other scenes in the Baroncelli Chapel, is also to be found in the Adoration of the Magi, but here its effect is deliberately reduced in favour of the Infant Jesus, before whom the old Magus has thrown himself to the ground, so that the viewer&#39;s gaze is directed to the cloud only by the pointing finger of the Magus standing on the right and by the horse in the back that is looking up at it.

## Related artworks

- [Allegory of the Cross](<https://beta.wga.hu/artists/gaddi-taddeo-r8a551887777f8d/allegory-of-the-cross-rc194ee142369cf>)
- [Annunciation to the Shepherds](<https://beta.wga.hu/artists/gaddi-taddeo-r8a551887777f8d/annunciation-to-the-shepherds-r4bf728e7ad026f>)
- [Assumption of St John the Evangelist](<https://beta.wga.hu/artists/gaddi-taddeo-r8a551887777f8d/assumption-of-st-john-the-evangelist-r807d729c03eb26>)
- [Crucifix](<https://beta.wga.hu/artists/gaddi-taddeo-r8a551887777f8d/crucifix-r91d1031e9750a9>)
- [Crucifixion](<https://beta.wga.hu/artists/gaddi-taddeo-r8a551887777f8d/crucifixion-r044af8c0d0c8a1>)
- [David](<https://beta.wga.hu/artists/gaddi-taddeo-r8a551887777f8d/david-ra80f8f9581508a>)
- [Entombment](<https://beta.wga.hu/artists/gaddi-taddeo-r8a551887777f8d/entombment-r18741908b5cff2>)
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- [Isaiah](<https://beta.wga.hu/artists/gaddi-taddeo-r8a551887777f8d/isaiah-r178a01764b5e33>)
- [Joachim and Anne Meeting at the Golden Gate](<https://beta.wga.hu/artists/gaddi-taddeo-r8a551887777f8d/joachim-and-anne-meeting-at-the-golden-gate-re8a2197e402892>)
- [Last Supper, Tree of Life and Four Miracle Scenes](<https://beta.wga.hu/artists/gaddi-taddeo-r8a551887777f8d/last-supper-tree-of-life-and-four-miracle-scenes-r3879f22417f3a2>)
- [Last Supper, Tree of Life and Four Miracle Scenes](<https://beta.wga.hu/artists/gaddi-taddeo-r8a551887777f8d/last-supper-tree-of-life-and-four-miracle-scenes-r992351e8c95d36>)

## Attribution

[Web Gallery of Art](<https://beta.wga.hu/pages/about>)