Leonardo da Vinci's unfinished masterpiece "Adoration of the Magi" has emerged from a six-year restoration cleaner, brighter and with a depth that hasn't been seen for centuries. Officials at Florence's Uffizi Gallery unveiled the restored work at a ceremony Monday that will kick off a special exhibit running through September pitting Leonardo's work alongside the "Adoration" of Filippo Lippi.

"This is a spectacular recovery of this most important painting by Leonardo," said Uffizi director Eike Shmidt. While Leonardo's "Mona Lisa" and "The Last Supper" are perhaps better appreciated, the Adoration "always was the most mysterious work as well because it was covered with dark layers of dirt, of paint and so on."