Adoration of the Magi (Fra Angelico and Filippo Lippi) interest in both the subject and the form. The Magi had been the key Medici devotion for decades, apparently beginning with the papacy of Antipope John XXIII (1410–1415) when they had become the main bankers of the Papacy, or at least those parts John controlled. The Medici belonged to the "Compagnia de' Magi", a Florentine confraternity based at the San Marco complex just by the Medici Palace, both of which Cosimo de' Medici rebuilt a few years before the tondo was painted. An annual procession on the feast of the Epiphany on January 6 was organized by the confraternity, and
Adoration of the Magi (Lorenzo Monaco) landscape of Giottoesque inspiration. The garments of the standing Magi and the one next to him have writing in Arabic. In the cusps are a "Blessing Redemeer" and, in the middle, two prophets. In the 15th century between the cusps were added two further prophets and an "Annunciation", partly executed by Cosimo Rosselli. Adoration of the Magi (Lorenzo Monaco) The Adoration of the Magi is a tempera on panel painting by the Italian late Gothic artist Lorenzo Monaco, now housed in the Uffizi Gallery in Florence. The painting is known by a rather complete documentation. It was executed by Lorenzo