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 (Leonardo) landscape are all copied from van der Weyden's "Entombment of Christ" (1460, Uffizi Gallery, Italy). Owing to the painting's unfinished status in 1481, the commission was handed over to Filippino Lippi, who painted another "Adoration of the Magi", completed in 1496, in substitution of the one commissioned to Leonardo. It is housed in the Uffizi in Florence. Domenico Ghirlandaio completed a separate painting, expanding upon Leonardo's theme, in 1488. In 2002, Dr. Maurizio Seracini, an art diagnostician alumnus of the University of California, San Diego and a native Florentine, was commissioned by the Uffizi to undertake a study of the