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For centuries after its creation, Fra Filippo Lippi’s altarpiece represented the Medici’s hope for favor from God and would be used in the family’s Christian devotional practices at their home.
Oct 14, 2023 · Filippo Lippi was born around 1406 in Florence. He died 1469 in Spoleto, in the Papal states, where he was working on a commission. The artist, also referred to as Fra Filippo Lippi, was an influential second generation Renaissance artist. He painted some of the most iconic religious images of the Renaissance.
Dec 6, 2023 · In this painting by Fra Filippo Lippi, Madonna and Child with Two Angels —a variation on the Madonna and Child Enthroned (see Giotto or Cimabue) that artists have been painting for hundreds of years—halos virtually disappear.
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.
Portrait of a Woman with a Man at a Casement. Fra Filippo Lippi Italian. ca. 1440. On view at The Met Fifth Avenue in Gallery 602. In Italian painting, this is the earliest surviving double portrait, the first to show sitters in a domestic setting, and the first with a view onto a landscape.
Filippo di Tommaso Lippi was probably born in Florence and took his monastic vows there in the convent of the Carmine in 1421. Since he is known to have taken the habit at a very young age--assumed to be about fifteen years--the date of his birth is currently estimated as 1406. He was probably trained as a painter in the convent, at least in ...
National Gallery of Art Collection. A Medici commission believed to be the work of Fra Angelico and Fra Filippo Lippi, The Adoration of the Magi (c. 1440/1460) is a colorful depiction of the moment when the three kings, led by a miraculous star, discovered the Christ child.
