Portrait of a Man with a Medal of Cosimo the Elder of the Medici family (including, possibly, Cosimo de' Medici himself) or, as he personally felt more likely, Antonio Botticelli, Botticelli's brother. This, he asserts, is based on the strength of the likeness of the youth to Botticelli himself, as portrayed in his "Adoration of the Magi". Antonio Botticelli had also recast and gilded medals, working in the court of the Medicis. However, he would have been about 40 at the time of the portrait. Frederick Hartt suggested it might be Lorenzo di Pierfrancesco de' Medici ("Il Poplano", 1463–1503), whose two certain portraits, both profiles on medals, vary considerably, though one
Adoration of the Magi (Rubens, Cambridge) the decision was taken to modify the east end of the main chapel and in 1968 it was installed there, where it now is. In June 1974 the painting was vandalised, with the letters "IRA" scratched on it. Adoration of the Magi (Rubens, Cambridge) The Adoration of the Magi is a c.1616-17 painting by the Flemish Baroque artist Peter Paul Rubens, now in King's College Chapel, Cambridge. The preparatory oil sketch for this painting is in The Wallace Collection, London. It was bought for a world-record price in 1959 by the property millionaire Alfred Ernest Allnatt and two years later