suggest that the drawings were made for a related
painting.11
Since Horne, the fragments have been associated
with the influence of Leonardo da Vinci and Girolamo
Savonarola. While Leonardo���s unfinished monochrome
version of an Adoration of the Magi of c. 1482 has
been paralleled with Botticelli���s technique, Savonarola���s
sermons have been linked to his style and subject matter.
This has allowed art historians to date the fragments
between the 1480s and the early 1500s. Now scholars
favour a dating around 1505. The stylistic reasoning will
be examined later.
Sandro Boticelli, Adoration of the Magi, 1500-1505.
HYLAND
