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Filippino Lippi (c. 1457 – April 1504) was a well-known painter working during the High Renaissance

High Renaissance

The High Renaissance, in the history of art, denotes the culmination of the art of the Italian Renaissance between 1450 and 1527. Because Pope Julius II patronized many artists during this time, the movement was centered in Rome; it had previously been centered in Florence....
in Florence

Florence

Italy

Italy , officially the Italian Republic , is a country located on the Italian Peninsula in Southern Europe and on the two largest islands in the Mediterranean Sea, Sicily and Sardinia....
.

Biography

Born Filippo Lippi in Prato

Prato

File:Prato, Santa Maria delle Carceri.JPGFile:Palazzo pretorio 02.JPGPrato is a city in Tuscany, Italy, the capital of the Province of Prato....
(Tuscany

Tuscany

Tuscany is a region in Italy. It has an area of and a population of about 3.6 million inhabitants. The regional capital is Florence.Tuscany is known for its landscapes and its artistic legacy....
), the illegitimate son of the painter Fra Filippo Lippi and nun Lucrezia Buti, Filippino first trained under his father. They moved to Spoleto

Spoleto

Spoleto is an ancient city in the Italy province of Perugia in east central Umbria on a foothill of the Apennine Mountains. It is 20 km S....
, where Filippino served as shop adjuvant

Adjuvant

Adjuvants are pharmacology or immunology agents that modify the effect of other agents while having few if any direct effects when given by themselves....
in the construction of the Cathedral there. When his father died in 1469, he completed the fresco

Fresco

Fresco is any of several related painting types, done on plaster on walls or ceilings. The word fresco comes from the Italian word affresco which derives from the adjective fresco , which has Latin origins....
s with Storie della Vergine (Histories of the Virgin) in the cathedral. Filippino Lippi completed his apprenticeship in the workshop of Botticelli

Sandro Botticelli

Alessandro di Mariano di Vanni Filipepi, better known as Sandro Botticelli or Il Botticello was an Italy Painting of the Florentine school during the Early Renaissance ....
, who had been a pupil of Filippino's father. In 1472, Botticelli also took him as his companion in the Compagnia di San Luca.

His first works greatly resemble those of Botticelli's, but with less sensitivity and subtlety. The very first ones (dating from 1475 onwards) were initially attributed to an anonymous "Amico di Sandro" ("Friend of Botticelli"). Eventually Lippi's style evolved into a more personal and effective one in the years 1480-1485. Works of the early period include: the Madonnas of Berlin

Berlin

Berlin is the Capital of Germany city and one of sixteen States of Germany of Germany. With a population of 3.4 million within its city limits, Berlin is the country's largest city....
, London

London

London is the capital of both England and the United Kingdom, and the most populous municipality in the European Union. An important settlement for two millennia, History of London goes back to its founding by the Roman Empire....
and Washington

Washington, D.C.

Washington, D.C. , formally the District of Columbia and commonly referred to as Washington, the District, or simply D.C., is the Capital of the United States, founded on July 16, 1790....
, the Journeys of Tobia of the Galleria Sabauda in Turin

Turín

Tur?n is a municipality in the Ahuachap?n Department Departments of El Salvador of El Salvador....
, Italy

Italy

Italy , officially the Italian Republic , is a country located on the Italian Peninsula in Southern Europe and on the two largest islands in the Mediterranean Sea, Sicily and Sardinia....
, the Madonna of the Sea of Galleria dell'Accademia and the Histories of Ester.

Together with Perugino

Pietro Perugino

Pietro Perugino was the leading Painting of the Umbrian school, who developed some of the qualities that found classic expression in the High Renaissance....
, Ghirlandaio

Domenico Ghirlandaio

Domenico Ghirlandaio was an Italian Renaissance painter from Florence. Among his many apprentices was Michelangelo....
and Botticelli, Lippi worked on the frescoed decoration of Lorenzo de Medici's

Lorenzo de' Medici

Lorenzo de' Medici was an Italy statesman and de facto ruler of the Florentine Republic during the Italian Renaissance. Known as Lorenzo the Magnificent by contemporary Florentines, he was a diplomat, politician and patron of scholars, artists, and poets....
villa at Spedaletto. On December 31, 1482 he was commissioned to work on a wall of Sala dell'Udienza of Palazzo Vecchio

Palazzo Vecchio

The Palazzo Vecchio is the City hall of Florence, Italy. This massive, romanesque architecture, Crenellation fortress-palace is among the most impressive town halls of Tuscany....
in Florence

Florence

Florence is the Capital city of the Italy Regions of Italy of Tuscany and of the provinces of Italy Province of Florence. It is the most populous city in Tuscany and has a population of 364,779 ....
(a work never begun). Soon after (probably in 1483-1484) he was called to complete Masaccio's decoration of Brancacci Chapel

Brancacci Chapel

The Brancacci Chapel is a chapel in the Church of Santa Maria del Carmine di Firenze in Florence. It is sometimes called the "Sistine Chapel of the early Renaissance" for its painting cycle, among the most famous and influential of the period....
in the church of the Carmine, left unfinished by the artist's death in 1428 . Here he realized the Stories of Saint Peter on the following frescoes: Quarrel with Simon Magus in face of Nero, Resurrection of Teophilus' Son, Saint Peter Jailed, Liberation and Saint Peter's Crucifixion.

The work on the Sala degli Otto di Pratica, in the Palazzo Vecchio

Palazzo Vecchio

The Palazzo Vecchio is the City hall of Florence, Italy. This massive, romanesque architecture, Crenellation fortress-palace is among the most impressive town halls of Tuscany....
, started on February 20, 1486. It is now in the Uffizi Gallery

Uffizi

The Uffizi Gallery , one of the oldest and most famous art museums in the world, is housed in the Palazzo degli Uffizi, a palazzo in Florence, Italy, Italy....
. In the same years Piero di Francesco del Pugliese asked him to paint the altarpiece with Apparition of the Virgin to St. Bernard
Apparition of the Virgin to St Bernard (Filippino Lippi)

Apparition of the Virgin to St. Bernard is a painting by the Italy Renaissance painter Filippino Lippi, dated 1480. It is housed in the Badia Fiorentina, a church in Florence....
, now in the Badia Fiorentina

Badia Fiorentina

The Bad?a Fiorentina is an abbey and church of the Fraternity of Jerusalem situated on the Via del Proconsolo in the centre of Florence, Italy. It is famous for being the parish church of Beatrice Portinari, the love of Dante Alighieri's life, and the place where he watched her at Mass , for Dante grew up across the street in what is now call...
, Florence

Florence

Florence is the Capital city of the Italy Regions of Italy of Tuscany and of the provinces of Italy Province of Florence. It is the most populous city in Tuscany and has a population of 364,779 ....
. This is Lippi's most popular picture: a composition of unreal items, with its very particular elongated figures, backed by a phantasmagorical scenario of rocks and almost anthropomorphic trunks. The work can be dated to the 1480-1486 years.

Eventually he worked for Tanai de' Nerli in the Saint Spirit's Church.

On April 21, 1487, Filippo Strozzi asked him to decorate the family chapel in Santa Maria Novella with the Stories of St. John Evangelist and St. Philip. He worked on this piece intermittently, only completing it in 1503, after the customer's death. The windows with musical themes, also designed by Filippino, were completed between June and July 1503. These paintings can be seen as a mirror of the political and religious crisis in Florence

Florence

Christianity

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and Paganism

Paganism

Paganism is the blanket term given to describe religions and spiritual practices of pre-Christian Europe, and by extension a term for polytheistic?traditions or folk religion?worldwide seen from a Western or Christian viewpoint....
, was hotly debated in the Florence

Florence

Girolamo Savonarola

Girolamo Savonarola , was an Italian Dominican Order priest and leader of Florence from 1494 until his execution in 1498. He was known for his book burning, destruction of what he considered immoral art, and hostility to the Renaissance....
.

Filippino showed his characters in a landscape which recreated the ancient world in its finest details, showing the influence of the Grottesco style he had seen in his journey to Rome

Rome

Rome is the capital city of Italy and Lazio, and is Italy's largest and most populous city, with 2,724,347 residents in an urban area of some ....
. He created in this way an "animated", mysterious, fantastic but also disquieting style, showing the unreality of something as a nightmare. In this way, Filippino portrayed ruthless executioners deformed by grim faces, who raged against the Saint

Saint

A saint in Christianity is a human being who has been called to holiness. The term is used differently by various denominations, with some, such as the Anglicans, Methodists, and Lutherans distinguishing between Saints and saints....
s. In the scene with St. Philip expelling a monster from the temple, the statue of the pagan

Paganism

Christian

A Christian is a person who adheres to Christianity, a Monotheism#Christian view religion centered on the life and teachings of Jesus and interpreted by Christians to have been prophesied in the Hebrew Bible/Old Testament....
saint.

In 1488, Lippi moved to Rome

Rome

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, where Lorenzo de' Medici

Lorenzo de' Medici

Oliviero Carafa

Oliviero Carafa was an Italian cardinal and diplomat of the Renaissance....
to entrust him the decoration of the family chapel in Santa Maria sopra Minerva

Santa Maria sopra Minerva

Santa Maria sopra Minerva is a basilica churches of Rome Rome. The church, located in the Piazza della Minerva in the Campus Martius region, is considered the only Gothic architecture church in Rome, and is the city's principal Dominican Order church....
. These frescoes show a new kind of inspiration, quite different from the earlier works, but confirm his continued research on the themes of the Ancient era. Lippi finished the cycle by 1493.

Lippi's return to Florence

Florence

Florence is the Capital city of the Italy Regions of Italy of Tuscany and of the provinces of Italy Province of Florence. It is the most populous city in Tuscany and has a population of 364,779 ....
is variously assigned to the years going from 1491 to 1494 . Works of this period include: Apparition of Christ to Madonna (1493, now in Munich

Munich

Munich is the capital city of Bavaria, Germany. Munich is located on the River Isar north of the Northern Limestone Alps. Munich is the third largest city in Germany, after Berlin and Hamburg....
), Adoration of the Magi
Adoration of the Magi (Filippino Lippi)

The Adoration of the Magi is a painting by the Italy Renaissance painter Filippino Lippi. It is signed and dated at 1496. It is housed in the Uffizi of Florence....
(1496, for the church of San Donato in Scopeto, now in the Uffizi

Uffizi

The Uffizi Gallery , one of the oldest and most famous art museums in the world, is housed in the Palazzo degli Uffizi, a palazzo in Florence, Italy, Italy....
), Sacrifice of Lacoön (end of the century, for the villa of Lorenzo de' Medici

Lorenzo de' Medici

Lorenzo de' Medici was an Italy statesman and de facto ruler of the Florentine Republic during the Italian Renaissance. Known as Lorenzo the Magnificent by contemporary Florentines, he was a diplomat, politician and patron of scholars, artists, and poets....
at Poggio a Caiano), St. John Baptist and Maddalena (Valori Chapel in San Procolo, Florence

Florence

Luca Signorelli

Luca Signorelli was an Italian Renaissance Painting who was noted in particular for his ability as a draughtsman and his use of foreshortening....
's art). He also worked outside of his mother-country, namely on the Certosa of Pavia

Pavia

Pavia , the ancient Ticinum, is a town and comune of south-western Lombardy, northern Italy, 35 km south of Milan on the lower Ticino river near its confluence with the Po River....
and in Prato

Prato

File:Prato, Santa Maria delle Carceri.JPGFile:Palazzo pretorio 02.JPGPrato is a city in Tuscany, Italy, the capital of the Province of Prato....
, where in 1503 he completed the Tabernacle of the Christmas Song, now in the City Museum; in 1501 Lippi realized the Mystic Wedding of St. Catherine for the Basilica of San Domenico

Basilica of San Domenico

The Basilica of San Domenico is one of the major churches in Bologna, Italy. The remains of Saint Dominic, founder of the Order of Preachers , are buried inside the exquisite shrine Arca di San Domenico, made by Nicola Pisano and his workshop, Arnolfo di Cambio and with later additions by Niccol? dell'Arca and the young Michelangelo....
in Bologna

Bologna

Bologna is the capital city of Emilia-Romagna in northern Italy, in the Po Valley , between the Po River and the Apennine Mountains, exactly between the Reno River and the S?vena River....
.

Lippi's last work is the Deposition for the Santissima Annunziata church in Florence

Florence

Florence is the Capital city of the Italy Regions of Italy of Tuscany and of the provinces of Italy Province of Florence. It is the most populous city in Tuscany and has a population of 364,779 ....
, which at his death in April 1504 was unfinished.

He was so renowned that all the workshops of the city closed on the day of his burial.

Major works

The Coronation of the Virgin (c. 1480) - Tempera on panel, 90,2 x 223 cm - National Gallery of Art
National Gallery of Art

The National Gallery of Art is a national art museum, located on the National Mall in Washington, D.C. The museum was established in 1938 by the United States Congress, with funds for construction and a substantial art collection donated by Andrew W....
, Washington
Washington, D.C.

Washington, D.C. , formally the District of Columbia and commonly referred to as Washington, the District, or simply D.C., is the Capital of the United States, founded on July 16, 1790....
Madonna with Child, St Anthony of Padua and a Friar (before 1480) - Tempera on wood, 57 x 41,5 cm, Museum of Fine Arts, Budapest
Budapest

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Tobias and the Angel
Tobias and the Angel (Filippino Lippi)

Tobias and the Angel is a painting by the Italy Renaissance painter Filippino Lippi, dating from c. 1475-1480. It is housed in the National Gallery of Art of Washington, DC....
(c. 1480) - Tempera on panel, 33 x 23 cm, National Gallery of Art, Washington, DC
Portrait of an Old Man (1485) -Detached fresco, 47 x 38 cm, Uffizi
Uffizi

The Uffizi Gallery , one of the oldest and most famous art museums in the world, is housed in the Palazzo degli Uffizi, a palazzo in Florence, Italy, Italy....
, Florence
Florence

Florence is the Capital city of the Italy Regions of Italy of Tuscany and of the provinces of Italy Province of Florence. It is the most populous city in Tuscany and has a population of 364,779 ....
Three Angels with Young Tobias (1485) - Oil on panel, 100 x 127 cm, Galleria Sabauda, Turin
Turín

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Self-Portrait - Detached fresco on flat tile, 50 x 31 cm, Uffizi, Florence
Portrait of a Youth (c. 1485) - Wood, 51 x 35,5 cm, National Gallery of Art, Washington
Signoria Altarpiece (Pala degli Otto) (1486)) - Tempera on wood, 355 x 255 cm, Uffizi, Florence
Annunciation with St. Thomas and Cardinal Carafa (1488-1493) - Fresco, Santa Maria sopra Minerva
Santa Maria sopra Minerva

Santa Maria sopra Minerva is a basilica churches of Rome Rome. The church, located in the Piazza della Minerva in the Campus Martius region, is considered the only Gothic architecture church in Rome, and is the city's principal Dominican Order church....
, Rome
Apparition of the Virgin to St. Bernard
Apparition of the Virgin to St Bernard (Filippino Lippi)

Apparition of the Virgin to St. Bernard is a painting by the Italy Renaissance painter Filippino Lippi, dated 1480. It is housed in the Badia Fiorentina, a church in Florence....
(1486) - Oil on panel, 210 x 195 cm, Church of Badia, Florence
Madonna with Child and Saints
Madonna with Child and Saints (Filippino Lippi)

The Madonna with St. Catherine of Alexandria and St. Martin of Tours is a painting by the Italy Renaissance painter Filippino Lippi. It is housed in the church of Santo Spirito, Florence of Florence....
(c. 1488) - Oil on wood, Santo Spirito, Florence
St. Jerome, (1490s) - Oil on wood, 136 x 71 cm, Uffizi, Florence
Adoration of the Magi
Adoration of the Magi (Filippino Lippi)

The Adoration of the Magi is a painting by the Italy Renaissance painter Filippino Lippi. It is signed and dated at 1496. It is housed in the Uffizi of Florence....
(1496) - Oil on wood, Uffizi, Florence
Allegory (c. 1498) - Oil on wood, 29 x 22 cm, Uffizi, Florence
Allegory of Music (Erato) (c. 1500) - Tempera on panel, 61 x 51 cm, Staatliche Museen
Museum Island

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, Berlin
Berlin

Berlin is the Capital of Germany city and one of sixteen States of Germany of Germany. With a population of 3.4 million within its city limits, Berlin is the country's largest city....
Mystic Marriage of St Catherine
Marriage of St. Catherine (Filippino Lippi)

Mystical Marriage of St. Catherine is a painting by the Italy Renaissance painter Filippino Lippi, dated 1503. It is housed in the Isolani Chapel of the Basilica di San Domenico, a church of the Dominican Order in Bologna....
(c. 1501-1503 -Panel, Basilica di San Domenico, Bologna
Bologna

Bologna is the capital city of Emilia-Romagna in northern Italy, in the Po Valley , between the Po River and the Apennine Mountains, exactly between the Reno River and the S?vena River....
Deposition (1504, finished by Perugino in 1507) - Oil on panel, 333 x 218 cm, Gallerie dell'Accademia, Florence

Filippino Lippi

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