Madonna and Child with Saints Francis, Damian, Cosmas and Anthony of Padua
Filippo Lippi Β· 1445
Why it's great
Mary and the baby Jesus sit in a marble niche, and saints stand around them. Filippo Lippi painted this altarpiece in about 1445 for the Medici family in Florence, and the Medici saints Cosmas and Damian are in it.
Where to see it
π Uffizi GalleryFlorence, Italy
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Filippo Lippi was a Florentine painter born in 1406, who was a Carmelite friar for much of his life. He painted tender Madonnas with real, lovely faces, and his son Filippino also became a painter. He died in Spoleto in 1469.
