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Filippo Lippi O.Carm. ( c. 1406 – 8 October 1469), also known as Lippo Lippi, was an Italian Renaissance painter of the Quattrocento (fifteenth century) and a Carmelite priest. He was an early Renaissance master of a painting workshop, who taught many painters.
Fra Filippo Lippi (born c. 1406, Florence [Italy]—died October 8/10, 1469, Spoleto, Papal States) was a Florentine painter in the second generation of Renaissance artists.
Fra Filippo Lippi was perhaps the most important Florentine painter of the second half of the fifteenth century, and one of the great masters of the Early Renaissance. He was an artist of tremendous skill and dexterity who manged to strike a fine balance between the traditions of devotional art and current humanist influences.
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Fra' Filippo Lippi, O.Carm. (c. 1406 – 8 October 1469), also called Lippo Lippi, was an Italian painter of the Quattrocento (15th century). Lippi was born in Florence in 1406 to Tommaso, a butcher, and his wife.
- Italian
- Florence, Italy
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Sep 19, 2020 · Filippo Lippi is one of the many significant Italian Renaissance artists of the Quattrocento. His works, while religious in context, reinvented the representation of biblical figures. His application of color and experimentation with naturalism allowed for a new way of viewing religious imagery.
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His life is a tale of lawsuits, complaints, broken promises and scandal. Fra Filippo's fame as a painter spread beyond his native Florence and he spent long periods painting fresco cycles in Prato and Spoleto, where he died. In 1456 he abducted a nun, Lucrezia Buti, from the convent in Prato where he was chaplain.
