The Holy Family sits on a ruined classical building as the three kings kneel with gifts, surrounded by Florentines in fine clothes. Commissioned by the banker Gaspare del Lama for his chapel in Santa Maria Novella, it flatters the Medici: Vasari identified Cosimo the Elder as the oldest king, and other family members appear among the onlookers.
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The young man in a golden-yellow cloak at far right, looking straight at us, is generally accepted as Botticelli's self-portrait.
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