Artists

Filippino Lippi

Country:
Italy
Birth year:
1457
Death year:
1504

Filippino Lippi (c. 1457 Parto-1504 Florence) was the son and pupil of Fra Filippo Lippi. After his father's death he studied with Sandro Botticelli in Florence. He derived much stimulation for his early paintings from both Botticelli and Rogier van der Weyden, whose works were well known south of the alps. Along with Botticelli, Lippi was one of the most important Florentine painters on the threshhold between the early and High Renassisance periods. Although Lippi produced large altar paintings, allegories, and portraits, he is primarily known as a fresco painter. Between 1487 and 1502 he completed the famed fresco cycle in the cappella Strozzi in Santa Maria Novell in Florence, and between 1489 and 1492, another in the Cappella Caraffa in Santa |Maria Sopra Minerva in Rome. A great number of his drawings have also survived. His other works include Virgin and Child with St.s National Gallery, London; Vision of St. Bernard c. 1486, Badia Florentina, Florence; and Virgin and Child with St. s Martin and Catherine, c. 1490, San Spiritu, Florence.

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