Painted in 1486 for the Magistratura degli Otto di Pratica (a body of eight magistrates) and hung probably in the Sala dei Duegento in Palazzo Vecchio. At the Uffizi since 1782.
Filippino was the son of the Italian painter Fra’ Filippo Lippi (1406 – 1469). Trained by his father until his death, another of Fillippo’s pupils, Sandro Botticelli (1444 – 1510), carried through...Read more