Adoration of the Magi (Fra Angelico and Filippo Lippi) the painting, they were perhaps added by Benozzo Gozzoli around the time he was working on the famous fresco cycle of the Magi Chapel in the Medici Palace in 1459–61. Gozzoli was a former member of Fra Angelico's workshop who by then ran his own studio. The chapel frescos also centre on elaborate processions of the Magi, and include several birds, and feathers, one of which is a goshawk, and another a peacock in a very similar pose to the one in the tondo. The painting has been generally identified with one recorded in an inventory of the contents of
Magi Chapel chapel was the altar panel bearing Filippo Lippi's "Adoration in the Forest". This painting is now in Berlin after being sold in the 19th century, while a copy by a follower of Lippi remains in the chapel. The chapel is famous for the series of wall paintings by Benozzo Gozzoli, with the "Angels in Adoration" in the rectangular apse and the "Journey of the Magi" in the large hall. The latter is covered in three large frescos, each showing the procession of one of the Three Magi on their way to Bethlehem to see the Nativity of Jesus. The religious