Adoration of the Magi (Fra Angelico and Filippo Lippi) other similarities it also has a peacock perched on the stable roof, and falconry imagery, with hawks attacking cranes both in the air and on the ground. The figure in black and white, behind the Magi and holding a falcon, may be a portrait of Piero de' Medici. There were several other important images of the Magi made for the Medici, apart from these and those in the palace chapel. The 1492 inventory lists four paintings, three probably from the period of Cosimo. Later, Botticelli was to paint several Medici portraits in his 1475 painting in the Uffizi, commissioned by
Adoration of the Magi (Rubens, Cambridge) the decision was taken to modify the east end of the main chapel and in 1968 it was installed there, where it now is. In June 1974 the painting was vandalised, with the letters "IRA" scratched on it. Adoration of the Magi (Rubens, Cambridge) The Adoration of the Magi is a c.1616-17 painting by the Flemish Baroque artist Peter Paul Rubens, now in King's College Chapel, Cambridge. The preparatory oil sketch for this painting is in The Wallace Collection, London. It was bought for a world-record price in 1959 by the property millionaire Alfred Ernest Allnatt and two years later