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The Chapel of Filippo Strozzi is located in the east (right) transept between the Bardi Chapel and the Tornabuoni (or Maggiore) Chapel. Its fame is due to the frescoes by Filippino Lippi started in the late 1480s and completed around 1502, the last series of paintings by the artist.
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On 21 April 1487, Filippo Strozzi asked him to decorate the Strozzi family chapel in Santa Maria Novella with Stories of St. John Evangelist and St. Philip. He worked on this commission on and off over a long time.
The Chapel of Filippo Strozzi is dedicated to the Apostles Philip and James (formerly to St John the Evangelist). All the frescoes in the chapel are by Filippino Lippi who completed them in 1502. On the right wall of the chapel the artist depicted the scene St Philip Driving the Dragon from the Temple of Hieropolis, above it in the lunette the ...
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Filippino Lippi, one of the most remarkable Renaissance painters (son and apprentice to Filippo Lippi, Sandro Botticelli's master as well) decorated one of the Santa Maria Novella church chapels with gorgeous murals, depicting stories of Saint Philip and Saint John the Evangelist with the Four Patriarchs of the Old Testament –Adam, Noah ...
The greatest work of this period and of his career is the series of frescoes for the aforementioned Strozzi Chapel, which were finally completed in 1502 (Raising of Drusiana). In them he attains a new mastery of compositional complexity combined with energetic, brilliantly colored form.
The Strozzi Chapel was the place where the first tale of the Decamerone by Giovanni Boccaccio began, when seven ladies decided to leave the town, and flee from the Black Plague to the countryside. The series of frescoes from Filippino Lippi depict the life of Philip the Apostle and James the Apostle.
the Strozzi chapel in the Dominican church of Santa Maria Novella in Florence (Fig.25) were published by Bini and Bigazzi as an appendix to the great merchant banker's biography.' Among these papers were the allocation of the murals to Filippino Lippi in 1487 and excerpts from Filippo Strozzi's will of 1491. Subsequent references to these key
