Adoration of the Magi (Fra Angelico and Filippo Lippi) wall until his death. These "desci" were typically decorated with allegorical or mythological scenes, while the large tondo was mostly used for religious subjects. But the shape was not found in paintings for churches, and may have carried a deliberate suggestion of a commission for a palace. Apart from the tondo being discussed, another with a loosely similar composition showing the "Adoration of the Magi", by Domenico Veneziano (now Gemäldegalerie, Berlin) is probably a Medici commission of c. 1439–1442; it may also be another painting recorded in the 1492 inventory (though that Magi tondo is there attributed to Pesellino). Among
Adoration of the Magi (Lorenzo Monaco) 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 with the help of three assistants, and, despite the reduced size, it was paid the huge sum of 182 florins. According to some hints in Giorgio Vasari's "Lives of the Most Excellent Painters", it could have been executed for the church of Sant'Egidio in Florence, when it was reconsecrated by Pope Martin V.