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The Adoration of the Kings: Why was this made, and how was it used?
Ryan Carter, Class of 2025, College of the Holy Cross
Later in his life the Lord of Foligno, Corrado de’ Trinici became a great supporter of the Ghibelline forces which were the faction that supported the Pope and the Holy Roman Emperor in Italy. As a result of this new partisanship, Trinici became an admirer of the Catholic Church and a practitioner himself. The Lord of Foligno thus commissioned Ottaviano Nelli to create the Adoration of the Kings as a way to honor this patronage. The painting itself was made to adorn one of the lower walls in Trinici’s palace chapel at Foligno and it also sat besides some of Nelli’s other work like the Presentation in the Temple.
