Predella panel of the high altarpiece for the Church of San Donato, Scopeto: Saint Augustine

Artist Filippino Lippi Italian, b. circa 1457, Prato; d. 1504, Florence

Datecirca 1496

MediumTempera on panel

Dimensions12 x 8 1/4 in. (30.5 x 21 cm)
Frame: 16 3/4 x 13 1/2 x 2 in. (42.5 x 34.3 x 5.1 cm)

ClassificationsPaintings

Credit LineGift of the Samuel H. Kress Foundation

Object numberGL.60.17.28

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ProvenancePossibly commissioned as part of an altarpiece for the high altar of the monastery of San Donato, Scopeto (Florence), 1496 [maintained by the Canons Regular of St. Augustine; dispersed when altarpiece was dismembered before 1666;] Aldrovandi Collection, Florence; Count Alessandro Contini Bonacossi, Florence; Samuel H. Kress Foundation, New York, 1935; on loan to National Gallery of Art, Washington, DC, 1941-51; gift of the Samuel H. Kress Foundation to the NCMA, 1961.
Published ReferencesPreliminary Catalogue of Paintings and Sculpture (exhibition catalogue) (Washington, DC: The National Gallery of Art, 1941), cat. no. 298.

Alfred Scharf, Filippino Lippi (Vienna: Anton Schroll, 1950), 22, 54, illus.

Luciano Berti and U. Baldini, Filippino Lippi (Florence, 19[??]), nos. [48-49?].

The Samuel H. Kress Collection (Raleigh: North Carolina Museum of Art, 1960), 64, illus. (b-w) 65, fig. B.

Bernard Berenson, Italian Pictures of the Renaissance: Florentine School, Vol. 1 (London: The Phaidon Press, 1968), 136-37, illus. fig [?].

Fern Rusk Shapley, Paintings from the Samuel H. Kress Collection; Italian Schools XIII - XV Century, Vol. 1 (London: The Phaidon Press, 1968), 136-37, illus. figs. 373-4.

Alessandro Cecchi, "Una predella e altri contributi per l' Adorazione dei Magi di Filippino," in Gli Uffizi Studi e Ricerche 5 (Firenze: Centro Di, 1988), 59-72 (64, illus. figs. 10, 11).

Filippino Lippi e Pietro Perugino - La Deposizione della Santissima Annunziata e il suo restauro, Franca Faletti and Jonathan Katz Nelson, eds. (Livorno: Sillabe, 2004), 129, illus. (b-w) 130, fig. 12.

Patrizia Zambrano and Jonathan Katz Nelson, Filippino Lippi (Milan: Electa, 2004), cat. no. 52C, discussed 594-95, illus. (b-w) 595, fig. 52C, and 473, fig. 404.

Perri Lee Roberts, Corpus of Early Italian Paintings in North American Public Collections: The South, Vol. 3 (Athens, GA: Georgia Museum of Art, University of Georgia, 2009), discussed 634, illus. (b-w) 635.

Norman B. Smith, Christianity in a Doubting Age (Alan Brilliant, 2012), illus. (color) 231.

Lyle Humphrey, "Saul Among the Prophets: W.R. Valentiner, Robert L. Humber, Carl W. Hamilton, and the Italian Collection at the NCMA," Lisandra Estevez, ed., Collecting Early Modern Art (1400-1800) in the U.S. South (Newcastle upon Tyne, UK: Cambridge Scholars Publishing, 2021), 45.

Eike D. Schmidt, Marco Ciatti, Cecilia Frosini, eds., Il Cosmo Magico di Leonardo da Vinci: l'Adorazione dei Magi Restaurata, (Florence, Italy: Giunti Editore, 2017), illus. (color)Exhibition HistoryWashington, DC, The National Gallery of Art, 1941-51, cat. no. 289.

Raleigh, NC, North Carolina Museum of Art, "A Gift to North Carolina: Italian Paintings and Sculpture from the Kress Collection," February 5-April 24, handout no. 10.

Venice, Gallerie degli Uffizi, “Leonardo da Vinci’s Magic Cosmos: The Restored Adoration of the Magi,” March 28–September 24, 2017, cat no. 3B, illus. (color).

Raleigh, NC, North Carolina Museum of Art, "The People's Collection, Reimagined," October 7, 2022–present. Object Rights Statement

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