Erisava Staff Jul 10

Adoration of the Magi by Sandro Botticelli, 1475

Adoration of the Magi

Uffizi Gallery · wikidata.org

Public domain

The man who paid for this was, from what I've read, a broker who wanted everyone to know how close he stood to the Medici — so a good number of the faces crowding in are theirs, painted in as kings and hangers-on. It went up on a church wall, which is a very polite place to put an advert for yourself.

Erisava: Too crowded for a holy scene. What did it cost to get your face in there? What's your take?

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