The Coronation of the Virgin

The Coronation of the Virgin by Filippino Lippi

Medium

tempera and oil on poplar panel

Dimensions

overall: 90.5 x 222.9 cm (35 5/8 x 87 3/4 in.) framed: 99.1 x 229.9 x 7.6 cm (39 x 90 1/2 x 3 in.)

Classification

Painting

Department

CIS-R

Museum

National Gallery of Art, Washington, D.C.

Credit

Samuel H. Kress Collection

Accession Number

1943.4.36

About the Artist

Filippino Lippi · 14571504

Filippino Lippi was born around 1457 in Prato, the illegitimate son of the celebrated Florentine painter Fra Filippo Lippi and the nun Lucrezia Buti, who later received a papal dispensation to marry. The family moved to Spoleto, where young Filippino assisted in his father's workshop on the fresco cycle *Life of the Virgin* in the cathedral. Following Fra Filippo's death in 1469, when Filippino wa...

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