Media Information

 
 
 
Collection:
ADJUNCT MODULE A: ITALIAN ART
Preferred Title:
Adoration of the Christ Child with St Romuald and the Infant John the Baptist
Alternate Title:
Adoration in the Forest
Image View:
Overall view with gilded frame and altar
Creator:
workshop of Filippo Lippi (Italian painter, ca. 1406-1469)
Location:
repository: Palazzo Medici-Riccardi (Florence, Tuscany, Italy)
Location Note:
Via Camillo Cavour, 3, Magi Chapel
GPS:
43.7752 11.255429
Date:
original, ca. 1459 (creation)
Cultural Context:
Italian
Style Period:
Renaissance
Work Type 1:
panel painting
Work Type 2:
altarpiece
Classification:
painting
Material:
tempera on panel
Technique:
gilding (technique); painting and painting techniques
Measurements:
127 cm (height) x 116 cm (width)
Description:
For the Magi Chapel, Filippo Lippi, an artist in great favor with Cosimo il Vecchio de’ Medici, painted the altarpiece, now replaced by a copy from the period attributed to Lippi’s own workshop, while the original is in the State Museum of Berlin (Gemäldegalerie). From the 1450s Lippi developed the theme of the Virgin adoring the Christ Child in a woodland setting. The complicated iconography with the added saints is perhaps expressive of the pietism of Piero de’ Medici and his wife, Lucrezia Tornabuoni. Saint Romuald is called Saint Bernard in some references. (Source: Palazzo Medici-Riccardi [website]; http://www.palazzo-m edici.it/)
Collection:
Adjunct Module A: Italian Art
Identifier:
7A1-LIPPI-AOC-A02
Rights:
© Scott Gilchrist, Archivision, Inc.

Adoration of the Christ Child with St Romuald and the Infant John the Baptist