Commissioned by Lucrezia Tornabuoni for a cell in the hermitage of Camaldoli, built by her husband Piero de' Medici in 1463. At the Uffizi since 1919.
Orphaned at a young age, Lippi was raised by an aunt and later entered a life of the cloth with the Carmelite friars of Florence. Though, as the biographer Giorgio Vasari (1511 – 1574) wrote, Lippi...Read more