The Virgin of the Nativity
Filippino Lippi
probably ca. 1500
Medium
Tempera and gold on wood
Dimensions
12 3/4 x 9 3/4 in. (32.4 x 24.8 cm)
Classification
Paintings
Department
European Paintings
Museum
Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York, NY
Credit
Gift of Donald S. Klopfer, 1982
Accession Number
1982.73
Tags
Virgin Mary
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...