An oil-on-poplar-panel altarpiece painted around 1459 by Fra Filippo Lippi for the Magi Chapel in the newly built Palazzo Medici in Florence; the original now hangs in Berlin's Gemäldegalerie, with a copy remaining in the chapel. The painting reimagines the Nativity in a mountainous, wooded setting littered with cut timber rather than the traditional stable, and omits Joseph, angels and animals; instead Mary kneels in adoration of the infant Jesus on the ground, accompanied by the child John the Baptist and Saint Romuald, with God the Father and the Holy Spirit shown above.
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around 1459
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oil on a poplar panel
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It is now in the Gemäldegalerie, Berlin, with a copy by another artist now hanging in the chapel.
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The painting is in oil on a poplar panel, and the painted surface measures 127 x 116 cm, with the panel being 129.5 x 118.5 cm.
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The painting is in oil on a poplar panel, and the painted surface measures 127 x 116 cm, with the panel being 129.5 x 118.5 cm.
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The Mystical Nativity or Adoration in the Forest was painted by Fra Filippo Lippi (c. 1406-1469) around 1459 as the altarpiece for the Magi Chapel in the new Palazzo Medici in Florence.
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