Presentation of the Virgin at the Temple
Artist: Giotto
1304
Painting
Presentation of the Virgin at the Temple forms one part of a much larger fresco cycle in the Capella degli Scrovegni, sometimes called the Arena Chapel because of its location on the site of a Roman amphitheater in Padua. The fresco cycle within the chapel relates the lives of both the Virgin Mary and Jesus Christ.
Procession of the Magi / The Journey of the Magi
Artist: Andrea del Sarto
1511
Painting
This fresco depicts the biblical account of the three Magi arriving at King Herod's palace. The lower foreground, and right side of the painting, are dominated by an animated crowd of foreign merchants carrying exotic goods and animals (including a giraffe visible in the right background). On the left, del Sarto has rendered the edge of Herod's palace with careful foreshortening. One of the unusual things about this fresco is the beautiful Tuscan countryside that forms the painting's backdrop.
This fresco is in Fresco - Santissima Annunziata, Florence
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