Saint Lawrence Enthroned with Saints and Donors

Filippo Lippi's Saint Lawrence Enthroned with Saints and Donors, painted around 1453 and now in the Metropolitan Museum of Art, depicts the deacon-martyr Lawrence on a throne flanked by saints and kneeling donors. The work dates to Lippi's Prato period, when he was also working on the celebrated fresco cycle in the cathedral. The inclusion of identifiable donors places the work within the Florentine tradition of commemorative altarpiece patronage.

Lippi composes the multi-figure altarpiece with characteristic spatial clarity, using his refined linear style and luminous palette to create a balanced devotional composition with sensitively rendered donor portraits.