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National Gallery of Art - THE COLLECTION
image of The Adoration of the Magi
Fra Angelico and Fra Filippo Lippi
Fra Filippo Lippi (painter)
Italian, c. 1406 - 1469
Fra Angelico (painter)
Italian, c. 1395 - 1455
The Adoration of the Magi, c. 1440/1460
tempera on panel
Overall (diameter): 137.3 cm (54 1/16 in.) overall: 137.3 x 138.4 cm (54 1/16 x 54 7/16 in.) framed: 188 x 171.5 x 12.7 cm (74 x 67 1/2 x 5 in.)
Samuel H. Kress Collection
1952.2.2
From the Tour: The Early Renaissance in Florence
Object 4 of 8

1951Einstein, Lewis. Looking at Italian Pictures in the National Gallery of Art. Washington, 1951: 32-33, repro.
1951Paintings and Sculpture from the Kress Collection Acquired by the Samuel H. Kress Foundation 1945-1951. Introduction by John Walker, text by William E. Suida. National Gallery of Art, Washington, 1951: 42, no. 9, repro.
1952Frankfurter, Alfred M. "Interpreting Masterpieces: Twenty-four Paintings from the Kress Collection." Art News Annual 1952:84, repro.
1956Walker, John. National Gallery of Art, Washington. New York, 1956: cover and 60, repro.
1957Shapley, Fern Rusk. Comparisons in Art: A Companion to the National Gallery of Art, Washington, DC. London, 1957 (reprinted 1959): pl. 9, 106
1959Paintings and Sculpture from the Samuel H. Kress Collection. National Gallery of Art, Washington, 1959: 50, repro.
1959Shapley, Fern Rusk. Early Italian Painting in the National Gallery of Art. Washington, D.C., 1959 (Booklet Number Three in Ten Schools of Painting in the National Gallery of Art, Washington, D.C.): 26, color repro.
1960The National Gallery of Art and Its Collections. Foreword by Perry B. Cott and notes by Otto Stelzer. National Gallery of Art, Washington (undated, 1960s): 6.
1961Seymour, Charles. Art Treasures for America: An Anthology of Paintings & Sculpture in the Samuel H. Kress Collection. London, 1961: 25-28, repro. pl. 19, color repro. 20-21
1962Cairns, Huntington and John Walker, eds., Treasures from the National Gallery of Art, New York, 1962: 12, color repro.
1963Walker, John. National Gallery of Art, Washington, D.C.. New York, 1963 (reprinted 1964 in French, German, and Spanish): 76, repro.
1965Summary Catalogue of European Paintings and Sculpture. National Gallery of Art, Washington, 1965: 8
1966Cairns, Huntington and John Walker, eds., A Pageant of Painting from the National Gallery of Art. 2 vols. New York, 1966: 1:24, color repro.
1966Shapley, Fern Rusk. Paintings from the Samuel H. Kress Collection: Italian Schools, XIII-XV Century. London, 1966: 95-97, fig. 259-261.
1968European Paintings and Sculpture, Illustrations. National Gallery of Art, Washington, 1968: 2, repro.
1975Ruda, Jeffrey. "The National Gallery Tondo of the Adoration of the Magi and the Early Style of Filippo Lippi." Studies in the History of Art vol. 7 (1975):6-39, repro.
1975European Paintings: An Illustrated Summary Catalogue. National Gallery of Art, Washington, 1975: 12, repro.
1978King, Marian. Adventures in Art: National Gallery of Art, Washington, D.C. New York, 1978: 20, pl. 2.
1979Shapley, Fern Rusk. Catalogue of the Italian Paintings. 2 vols. National Gallery of Art, Washington, 1979: I:10-13, II: repro. pl. 7, 7B,C,D
1979Watson, Ross. National Gallery of Art. London, 1979: 19, pl. 3, color repro.
1984Walker, John. National Gallery of Art, Washington. (rev. ed.) New York, 1984: 84, no. 40, color repro.
1985European Paintings: An Illustrated Catalogue. National Gallery of Art, Washington, 1985: 19, repro.
1985Wolk, Linda. "The Pala Baciadonne by Perino del Vaga." Studies in the History of Art 18 (1985):41, repro.
1992National Gallery of Art, Washington. National Gallery of Art, Washington, 1992: 15, repro.
1997ARS, L'Arte e La Storia: Il Piacere di Capire, Milano, 1997: 18, repro.
2003Boskovits, Miklós, and David Alan Brown, et al. Italian Paintings of the Fifteenth Century. The Systematic Catalogue of the National Gallery of Art. Washington, D.C., 2003: 21-30, color repro.
2004Danziger, Elon. "The Cook collection, its founder and its inheritors." The Burlington Magazine 146, no. 1216 (July 2004): 444, 448, 457, repro.
2007Sale, J. Russell. "Birds of a feather: the Medici 'Adoration' tondo in Washington." The Burlington Magazine CXLIX (January 2007): 4-13, repro.

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