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Why were the frescoes in Spoleto Cathedral left unfinished?
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Fra Filippo Lippi
Madonna and Child, tempera on poplar panel by Fra Filippo Lippi, c. 1440; in the National Gallery of Art, Washington, D.C., 79 Ć 51.1 cm.
The frescoes in the Spoleto Cathedral were left unfinished because of the death of Fra Filippo Lippi.1
Lippi had traveled to Spoleto in 1467 to undertake the commission for the choir's decorations, which included the Nativity, the Annunciation, the Death of Mary, and the Coronation in the vault of the apse. These works were his final project and were interrupted by his passing.1