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
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