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Adoration of the Magi</em>, Filippino Lippi, 1496<br />
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The 5-year old Leonardo is listed as a dependent in the tax assessment declaration of his grandfather, Antonio.

Birth of Florentine painter Filippino Lippi, son of the artist Filippo Lippi. Highly regarded in his day, Filippino enjoyed the patronage of the Medici and fulfilled the commission for the Palazzo Vecchio altarpiece and the Adoration of the Magi altarpiece for the Monks of San Donato that had been abandoned by Leonardo sometime before 1483.

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