LIPPI, Filippino
(b. ca. 1457, Prato, d. 1504, Firenze)

Altar wall of the Carafa Chapel

1489-91
Fresco
Santa Maria sopra Minerva, Rome

The altar wall of the chapel has an Assumption and the central part of the wall an Annunciation and Aquinas presenting Cardinal Carafa to the Virgin. The Annunciation appears to be on a panel but in reality it is fresco while the frame, which mimics carved wood, is of gilded stucco.