Filippino Lippi






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Known as: Italian High Renaissance Painter
Born: c. 1457, Prato, Italy
Date of death: April, 1504

Filippino Lippi was born to parents both in Holy Orders. He began as a painter at an early age, trained by his father, Fra Filippo Lippi and assisting him in his work. When his father died when he was only 12 years old, Fillipino completed the frescoes in the Spoleto Cathedral...


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Botticelli had also been a pupil of his father, and Filippino completed his apprenticeship in the workshop of the great master.

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FILIPPINO LIPPI: FRAGMENTS FROM A LIFE

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Works Include:

  • Journeys of Tobia (Galleria Sabauda in Turin, Italy)
  • Madonna of the Sea (Galleria dell'Accademia)
  • Frescoed decoration of Lorenzo de Medici's villa at Spedaletto (with Perugino, Ghirlandaio and Botticelli)
  • Madonna with Child, St Anthony of Padua and a Friar (Museum of Fine Arts, Budapest) (before 1480)
  • The Coronation of the Virgin (National Gallery of Art, Washington) (c. 1480)
  • Stories of Saint Peter (completion of Masaccio's unfinished decoration of Brancacci Chapel in the church of the Carmine) (c. 1483-1484)

  • Portrait of an Old Man (Uffizi, Florence) (1485)
  • Portrait of a Youth (National Gallery of Art, Washington) (c. 1485)
  • Self-Portrait (Uffizi, Florence)
  • Work on the Sala degli Otto di Pratica, Palazzo Vecchio (Uffizi, Florence) (1486)

  • Apparition of the Virgin to St Bernard (Badia Fiorentina, Florence) (1480-1486)
  • Stories of St John Evangelist and St Philip (Filippo Strozzi family chapel, Santa Maria Novella) (1487-1503)
  • Madonna with Child and Saints (Santo Spirito, Florence) (c. 1488)
  • St Jerome (Uffizi, Florence) (1490s)
  • Apparition of Christ to Madonna (Munich) (1493)
  • Adoration of the Magi (church of San Donato in Scopeto) (Uffizi, Florence) (1496)
  • Allegory (Uffizi, Florence) (c. 1498)
  • Sacrifice of Lacoön (for the villa of Lorenzo de' Medici at Poggio a Caiano) (1499)
  • St John Baptist and Maddalena (Valori Chapel in San Procolo, Florence)
  • Certosa of Pavia
  • Allegory of Music (Erato) (Staatliche Museen, Berlin) (c. 1500)
  • Mystic Wedding of St Catherine (Basilica of San Domenico, Bologna) (1501)

  • Tabernacle of the Christmas Song (City Museum, Prato) (1503)
  • Deposition for the Santissima Annunziata church (Florence) (unfinished) (1504)


    Gallery
    I M A G E S

    filippino lippi / adoring angel

    Filippino Lippi
    Adoring Angel
    © Estate of Filippino Lippi

    Filippino Lippi / sepia maiden

    Filippino Lippi
    Sepia Maiden
    © Estate of Filippino Lippi

    filippino lippi / the dispute with simon mago, and the crucifixion of st. peter circa 1480 (detail)

    Filippino Lippi
    The Dispute with Simon Mago, and the Crucifixion of St. Peter circa 1480 (detail)
    © Estate of Filippino Lippi

    Filippino Lippi / two angel faces

    Filippino Lippi
    Two Angel Faces
    © Estate of Filippino Lippi

    filippino lippi / annunciation (detail) filippino lippi / annunciation filippino lippi / crucifixion of st. peter & st. peter and st. paul filippino lippi / madonna and child with angels filippino lippi / madonna with child and two angels filippino lippi / martyrdom of st. philip, south wall of strozzi chapel, circa 1497-1502 filippino lippi / north wall of strozzi chapel, the martyrdom of st. john the evangelist, circa 1457-1502 filippino lippi / st. lucy, circa 1472-74 filippino lippi / st. peter freed from jail, circa 1480 filippino lippi / st. peter visited in jail by st. paul, circa 1480 filippino lippi / the dispute with simon mago (nero enthroned), circa 1484-85 filippino lippi / the dispute with simon mago, and the crucifixion of st. peter, circa 1480 (detail) filippino lippi / the madonna and child, a detail from the tabernacle of the canto al mercatale, 1498 filippino lippi / the vision of st. bernard, detail of the virgin and angels, circa 1485

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