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
Adoration of the Magi (Ospedale degli Innocenti) landscape with ships among hills and mountains, a layman and a clerk observe the scene: they symbolize the main institutions backing the orphanage. The city in the left background is a symbolic representation of Rome: edifices include the Colosseum, Trajan's Column, the Torre delle Milizie and the Pyramid of Cestius. The predella, painted by Bartolomeo di Giovanni, includes episodes of the lives of the saints and of the Virgin. They are, from left: Adoration of the Magi (Ospedale degli Innocenti) The Adoration of the Magi is a painting by the Italian Renaissance master Domenico Ghirlandaio, executed around 1485-1488 and housed