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Fra Angelico and Fra Filippo Lippi

Fra Angelico and Fra Filippo Lippi

Italian, 1469

This name credits The Adoration of the Magi, a round panel (tondo) painted in tempera on poplar around 1440–1460 by two Florentine painters of the early Renaissance, Fra Angelico (c. 1395–1455) and Fra Filippo Lippi (c. 1406–1469). The tondo, about 137 cm across, was owned by Lorenzo de' Medici until 1492 and later belonged to the Cook collection in Richmond, England. It entered the National Gallery of Art in Washington with the Samuel H. Kress Collection in 1952.

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