A tempera on wood, gold ground panel titled "Saint Lawrence Enthroned with Saints and Donors," by Fra Filippo Lippi, 1440s, showing the Roman deacon and martyr seated in majesty among attendant saints and kneeling donor figures. Held today by the Metropolitan Museum of Art under accession 35.31.1a-c, European Paintings department.
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Origins
Commissioned ByAlessandro Alessandri (1391 to 1460), a Florentine merchant and office holder in the city's government, commissioned the panel and appears kneeling with his two sons in the foreground; some scholars connect it instead to a 1453 marriage gift for his daughter Ginevra degli Alessandri, though the mid-1440s dating for the commission itself is more commonly favored. 1 Physical Form
MediumTempera on wood, gold ground, by Fra Filippo Lippi, 1440s, Metropolitan Museum of Art 35.31.1a-c 1 Medium (class) Connections
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Source Saint Lawrence Enthroned with Saints and Donors, accession 35.31.1a-c (Metropolitan Museum of Art)
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The Met's own title for this panel names the subject outright, "Saint Lawrence Enthroned with Saints and Donors," a direct identification rather than a bare thematic tag.
Source Saint Lawrence Enthroned with Saints and Donors, accession 35.31.1a-c (Metropolitan Museum of Art)
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1. Saint Lawrence Enthroned with Saints and Donors, accession 35.31.1a-c (Metropolitan Museum of Art)
Metropolitan Museum of Art- accession 35.31.1a-c
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A tempera on wood, gold ground panel titled "Saint Lawrence Enthroned with Saints and Donors," by Fra Filippo Lippi, 1440s, showing the Roman deacon and martyr seated in majesty among attendant saints and kneeling donor figures.
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