Adoration of the Magi (Fra Angelico and Filippo Lippi) complexes of Rome, and possibly some awareness of this similarity led Lippi to represent his nude figures on the ruins as bathers, who might be imagined coming out from a still-functional bathing part of the complex to see what all the noise was about. Adoration of the Magi (Fra Angelico and Filippo Lippi) The Adoration of the Magi is a tondo, or circular painting, of the "Adoration of the Magi" assumed to be that recorded in 1492 in the Palazzo Medici Riccardi in Florence as by Fra Angelico. It dates from the mid-15th century and is now in the National
Adoration of the Magi (Fra Angelico and Filippo Lippi) its portrayal of life, is beginning its long development. The painting shows the three Magi or "kings" presenting their gifts to the infant Jesus, who is held by his mother. Saint Joseph stands beside her, and the manger, ox and ass of the usual depiction of the Nativity are behind this main group. Thus far the composition contains the inevitable components in a very standard arrangement. As very often, the subject has been combined with the "Adoration of the Shepherds", who are represented by three figures in ragged dress, one behind Joseph, and two at the right side of the