Commissioned c. 1470 for the old church of San Domenico, Modena; church demolished and rebuilt 1708, and its paintings perhaps dispersed at that time.[1] Baron Michele Lazzaroni, Rome, by 1925.[2] Mrs. Felix Warburg, New York, by 1936;[3] gift 1941 to NGA. [1] L. Vedriani, in _Raccolta de' pittori modonesi più celebri_, Modena, 1662: 23, noted that the St. Thomas Aquinas altarpiece was in a chapel on the rood screen of San Domenico. [2] It was first noted in the Lazzaroni collection by Bernard Berenson, "Nove pitture in cerca di un' attribuzione," _Dedalo_ 5 (1925): 607. [3] Bernard Berenson, _Pitture italiane del Rinascimento_, Milan, 1936: 323.