# Saint Benedict Orders Saint Maurus to the Rescue of Saint Placidus

- By: Fra Filippo Lippi (Florentine, c. 1406 - 1469)
- Date: c. 1445/1450
- Medium: tempera on panel
- Classification: Painting
- Dimensions: overall: 40 x 69.5 cm (15 3/4 x 27 3/8 in.) ; framed: 49.5 x 79.4 x 6 cm (19 1/2 x 31 1/4 x 2 3/8 in.)
- Culture: Florentine
- Credit line: Samuel H. Kress Collection
- Museum: [National Gallery of Art](https://www.nga.gov/collection/art-object-page.41620.html)
- Rights: [Public domain (NGA Open Access, CC0)](https://creativecommons.org/publicdomain/zero/1.0/)
- Picture: https://api.nga.gov/iiif/2782d749-73fa-477a-be42-ce1f155ae30d/full/!1920,1080/0/default.jpg
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