Procession of the Youngest King (detail)

With a landscape background filling the rest of of the pictorial space, this fresco was designed like contemporary tapestries, a new type of courtly art destined for wealthy patrons.

The fortress, in the style of medieval castles, which appears at the highest point of the picture and is the point from which the king’s pilgrimage has set out, is similar to the Medicis’ country seat in Cafaggiolo. It is interpreted as Jerusalem, where the procession of the magi started. This was where King Herod had instructed the wise men to search for the child.