The adoration of the Magi

Giovanni Paolo Panini, an Italian painter was a Vedutisti. He was a specialist in Baroque art and is best known for his vistas. Typically in line of Baroque style, his art was characterized by dramatic, rich and deep contrasts of colours. Intense lighting and dark shadow arts were used. Rather than the calm rationality of Renaissance art, Baroque is emotional and passionate. Chiaroscuro light works were used to create a shocking effect. Panini painter landscapes and cityscapes of large scale. That is why he was known as Vedutisti. Much of his subjects were the city antiquities of Rome. The Roman subjects played at Capriccio. He painted fantasies combined with actual architectural elements in fictional scenarios Panini was also a known portrait painter. He was a professor of perspective in Rome. From here, we get the term "Panini Projection". "The Adoration of the Magi'' is one of the artist's favourite creations which combines a biblical scene with the ruins of a real site. Mother Mary and Baby Jesus are posed on the left side. The Magi approaches with their gifts. The scene is dramatically aided by towering yet crumbling structures. The sky is light with dynamic clouds. There is a sharp contrast between dark and vast structures in the foreground and the light blues and whites in the background. A divine presence is evoked in the scene. The Magi are wearing fine and silken clothes.The Madonna and the child in the crumbling architecture symbolise the fall of the old Pagan world and the rise of Christianity.