The Coronation of the Virgin
Filippino Lippi
c. 1475
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 · 1457–1504
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...