\paperw4260 \margr0\margl0 \plain \fs20 \f1 The work is one of the most important and imposing altarpieces painted by the friar Filippo Lippi and the spatial and scenographic orc
hestration of the whole demonstrates his great mastery of composition. The figures of St. Frediano and St. Augustine are included in the painting because it was commissioned by the Barbadori family for the Augustinian church of Santo Spirito in Florence.