Adoration of the Magi (Filippino Lippi) Adoration of the Magi (Filippino Lippi) The Adoration of the Magi is a painting by the Italian Renaissance painter Filippino Lippi. It is signed and dated at 1496. It is housed in the Uffizi of Florence. The panel was painted for the Convent of the San Donato agli Scopeti, in substitution of the one commissioned in 1481 to Leonardo da Vinci, who left it unfinished. In 1529 it was acquired by Cardinal Carlo de' Medici and in 1666 it became part of the Uffizi collection. Filippino Lippi followed Leonardo's setting, in particular in the central part of the work. Much
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