Pseudo Pier Francesco Fiorentino
Adoration of the Child, second half of the 15th century, tempera on panel
This paiting was identified by critics as the work of an artist conventionally called pseudo Pier Francesco Fiorentino. The composition imitates the altar, now lost, representing a Madonna, who adores the Child carried by two angels, that Fra Filippo Lippi painted for King Alfonso of Naples. Furthermore, scholars have ascertained the existence of many other versions of this composition among which the most similar are those in the Cleveland Museum of Art and the one in the Städelsches Kunstinstitut und Städtische Galerie in Frankfurt.
