Filippino Lippi painted this altarpiece around 1498–1500 for the funerary chapel of Francesco Valori in the Church of San Procolo in Florence. The Valori family was close to the Medici and prominent in Florentine politics for five generations. Francesco Valori was Gonfaloniere of Justice in 1497 and an influential supporter of Girolamo Savonarola. He was beheaded in April 1498, close to the Churc...