Adorazione del Bambino di Camaldoli
Adorazione del Bambino, c. 1463 (detail of Holy Child only). Tempera on wood, 140 x 130 cm. Galleria degli Uffizi, Florencia. Filippo Lippi (Florence, c.1406 - Spoleto 1469)
Though at times a really naughty boy of the Carmelite Order, Fra Filippo Lippi executed some of Italy’s best Renaissance works like the one I am briefly commenting, Adoration of the Child with Saints.
Perhaps thanks to his Lucrezia’s influence we might be grateful to have had his works. After the death of the generation of Masaccio, Lippi and other peers (notably, Fra Angelico, Veneziano and della Robbia) were the new mirror on to which the Italian arts could reflect.
Though I have decided to upload only the Child detail I encourage you to pursuit further and to look at the whole picture yourself. This marvellous work was commissioned by Lucrezia Tornabuoni, Piero de’ Medici’s wife, for the hermit monastery of the Camaldoli.
Baby Jesus lies at the feet of His Mother on a flower meadow in a supposedly hilly landscape behind.
A bit of peacefulness and serene contemplation of a great depiction of the Holy Child in these disturbing times.
Jesús Lorenzo Vieites