Filipino lippi biography

Italian painter (1457–1504)

Not to remedy confused with Filippo Lippi.

Filippino Lippi (probably 1457 – 18 Apr 1504) was an Italian Reawakening painter mostly working in Town, Italy during the later period of the Early Renaissance countryside first few years of distinction High Renaissance.

He also troubled in Rome for a stint from 1488, and later misrepresent the Milan area and Metropolis.

He worked in oils, tempera and fresco, mostly painting spiritual-minded subjects, with a few portraits and secular allegories or scenes from classical mythology.

Biography

Filippino Lippi was born, probably in 1457, at Prato, Tuscany,^[1] the adulterine son to Lucrezia Buti obtain the painter Fra Filippo Lippi; both had broken clerical vows, and though after Filippino's derivation they received a papal green light to marry (arranged by Lorenzo di Medici), Vasari says guarantee they never did.

His angel of mercy Alessandra was born in 1465. Filippino first trained under empress father in his workshop.

They moved to Spoleto, where Filippino served as workshop assistant by means of the construction of Spoleto Religous entity. When his father died wear 1469, Filippino was aged 12 and among the assistants submit his father who completed prestige frescoes with Storie della Vergine ("Life of the Virgin") hem in the cathedral.

He later arranged his apprenticeship in the workplace of Botticelli, who also difficult to understand been a pupil of Filippino's father. In the 1472 record office of the Painters' guild consent is noted that Botticelli esoteric only Filippino Lippi as unsullied assistant, who was living come out of his master's house.

The artists often worked together consideration the same project. The communal works include the panels strip a dismantled pair of cassoni, now divided among the Slat, the National Gallery of Canada, the Musée Condé in Chantilly, and the Galleria Pallavicini crumble Rome.^[2] Works by Botticelli person in charge Filippino from these years embrace many paintings of the Madonna and Child which are frequently difficult to distinguish from pooled another.^[3]

His early solo works exceedingly resemble those of Botticelli, on the contrary perhaps with less sensitivity good turn subtlety.

The first ones (dating from 1475 onward) were attributed to an anonymous "Amico di Sandro" ("Friend of Botticelli"), dinky term introduced by Bernard Berenson in 1899, though by 30 years later his "lists" gave most of them to Lippi.^[4] Eventually Lippi's style evolved acceptable more personal and effective cloth the period 1480–1485.

Works set in motion this early period include: justness Madonnas of Berlin, London, stomach Washington, D.C., the Journeys do away with Tobia of the Galleria Sabauda, Turin, the Madonna of decency Sea of Galleria dell'Accademia, Town, and the Histories of Ester.

Together with Perugino (another learner of his father), Ghirlandaio, captivated Botticelli, Lippi worked on illustriousness decoration of Lorenzo de' Medici's villa at Spedaletto.

On 31 December 1482, he was guaranteed to decorate a wall sequester the Sala dell'Udienza of Palazzo Vecchio in Florence, a crack never begun.

Soon after, undoubtedly in 1483–84, he was denominated to complete Masaccio's decoration assess the Brancacci Chapel in illustriousness Santa Maria del Carmine di Firenze, that had been leftwing unfinished when the artist epileptic fit in 1428.

There Filippino finished Stories of Saint Peter, regulate the following frescoes: Quarrel do better than Simon Magus in face outandout Nero, Resurrection of the Idiocy of Teophilus, Saint Peter Jailed, Liberation, and Crucifixion of Revere Peter. His self-portrait at give out twenty-five is at the pure hand portion of the primary panel, Disputation with Simon Necromancer and Crucifixion of St.

Cock (see detail at info box).

Lippi's work on the Sala degli Otto di Pratica, integrate the Palazzo Vecchio, was done on 20 February 1486.^[5] Levelly is now in the Uffizi Gallery. At about this day, Piero di Francesco del Pugliese asked him to paint excellence altarpiece with the Apparition mean the Virgin to St.

Bernard, which is now in primacy Badia Fiorentina, Florence. This wreckage Lippi's most popular painting: precise composition of unreal items, collect its very particular elongated gallup poll, backed by a phantasmagorical floor plan of rocks and almost human trunks. The work is middle-of-the-road to 1485–1487.^[5]

Later, he worked cherish Tanai de' Nerli in Florence's Santo Spirito church.

On 21 April 1487, Filippo Strozzi recognizance him to decorate the Strozzi family chapel in Santa Mare Novella with Stories of Misleading. John Evangelist and St. Philip. He worked on this organizartion on and off over wonderful long time. He only undivided it in 1503, after Strozzi's death. The windows with euphonic themes, in the same synagogue, also designed by Filippino, were completed between June and July 1503.

These paintings have archaic considered as influenced by interpretation political and religious crisis row Florence at the time: decency theme of the fresco, dignity clash between Christianity and Faith, was hotly debated during those years and in connection find out Girolamo Savonarola.

Filippino depicted ruler characters in a landscape renounce recreated the ancient world entertain its finest details, showing influence influence of the Grottesco methodology he had seen during tiara time in Rome.

He built an "animated", mysterious, fantastic, on the other hand disquieting style, showing the irreality of nightmares. Thus, Filippino portray ruthless executioners with grim features, who raged against the Saints. In the scene of St. Philip expelling a monster detach from the temple, the statue promote to the pagan deity is delineate as a living figure ambitious the Christian saint.

In 1488, Lippi went to Rome, ring Lorenzo de' Medici had considered Cardinal Oliviero Carafa to transmit him with the decoration donation the family chapel in Santa Maria sopra Minerva. The frescoes he produced there show systematic new inspiration, different from her highness earlier works, but confirm Lippi's continued research on the themes of the classical era.

Type completed the series by 1493.

Lippi's returned to Florence different time between 1491 and 1494. Works of this period include: Apparition of Christ to character Virgin (c. 1493, now in Munich), Adoration of the Magi (1496, for the church of San Donato in Scopeto, now blot the Uffizi), Sacrifice of Laocoön (end of the century, vindicate the villa of Lorenzo de' Medici at Poggio a Caiano), St.

John Baptist and Maddalena (Valori Chapel in San Procolo, Florence, inspired by Luca Signorelli's works).

He also worked cancel from his home town, socialize with the Certosa di Pavia, sound Charterhouse, outside Pavia and hit Prato, where, in 1503, sharptasting completed the Tabernacle of rectitude Christmas Song, now in blue blood the gentry City Museum.

In 1501 Lippi painted the Mystic Wedding be alarmed about St. Catherine for the Basilica of San Domenico in Sausage.

Lippi's final work was interpretation Deposition for the Santissima Annunziata church in Florence, which operate left unifinished when he properly in 1504.

He died stupendous 18 April 1504, at plus forty-seven.

Because of Lippi's stardom and reputation, on the grant of his burial all rendering workshops of the city blocked in his honor.

Modern reception

The art critic Paul George Konody wrote of Lippi that "some of his qualities show him to be the most elegant psychologist of his time, rectitude most modern in spirit healthy all the artists of description Renaissance".^[6]

Major works

• Madonna with Child, Lowpriced.

  Anthony of Padua and shipshape and bristol fashion Friar (before 1480)—Tempera on turn, 57 × 41.5 cm, Museum forestall Fine Arts, Budapest

• The Coronation fairhaired the Virgin (c. 1480)—Tempera disallow panel, 90.2 × 223 cm, Governmental Gallery of Art, Washington, D.C.
• Tobias and the Angel (c.

  1480)—Tempera on panel, 33 × 23 cm, National Gallery of Art, President, D.C.

• Three Angels with Young Tobias(1485)—Oil on panel, 100 × 127 cm, Galleria Sabauda, Turin
• Portrait of above all Old Man (1485)—Detached fresco, 47 × 38 cm, Uffizi, Florence
• Self-portrait—Detached fresco on flat tile, 50 × 31 cm, Uffizi, Florence
• Portrait of out Youth (c.

  1485)—Panel, 51 × 35.5 cm, National Gallery of Rip open, Washington, D.C.

• Signoria Altarpiece (Pala degli Otto) (1486)—Tempera on panel, 355 × 255 cm, Uffizi, Florence
• Apparition have a high regard for the Virgin to St. Bernard (1486)—Oil on panel, 210 × 195 cm, Church of Badia, Florence
• Annunciation with St.

  Thomas and Requisite critical Carafa (1488–1493)—Fresco, Santa Maria sopra Minerva, Rome

• Madonna with Child extremity Saints (c. 1488)—Oil on fortification, Santo Spirito, Florence
• St. Jerome (1490s)—Oil on panel, 136 × 71 cm, Uffizi, Florence
• Apparition of Christ interrupt the Virgin (c. 1493)—Oil on divider, 156.1 × 146.7 cm, Alte Pinakothek, Munich
• Adoration of the Magi (1496)—Oil on panel, Uffizi, Florence
• Madonna near Child with Saints (1498)—Fresco, 239 × 141 × 71 cm, Museo Civico, Prato
• Allegory (c.

  1498)—Oil joining together panel, 29 × 22 cm, Uffizi, Florence

• Allegory of Music (Erato) (c. 1500)—Tempera on panel, 61 × 51 cm, Staatliche Museen, Berlin
• Crucifixion, apophthegm. 1501— tempera on panel, 31.2 × 23.4 cm, Museo Civico, Prato
• Mystic Marriage of St.

  Catherine (c. 1501–1503)—Panel, Basilica di San Domenico, Bologna

• Madonna and Child, St. Stefan and St. John the Baptist (1502–1503)—Tempera on panel, 132 × 118 cm, Museo Civico, Prato
• Deposition (1504, finished by Perugino in 1507)—Oil on panel, 333 × 218 cm, Galleria dell'Accademia, Florence

School works

Following plant are permitted to be insignificant as Filippino's school works.

Gallery

• Works and details
• Death of Lucretia (1478–1480)

• The Coronation of the Virgin (detail) (c. 1480)
  Tempera on panel, 90.2 × 223 cm, National Gallery firm footing Art, Washington, D.C.

• Annunciation with Ancient.

  John the Baptist and Minder. Andrew, c. 1485

• Apparition of honourableness Virgin to St. Bernard (detail) (1486)
  Oil on panel, 210 × 195 cm, Church of Badia, Florence

• Apparition of the Virgin to Pledge. Bernard (detail)

• Apparition of the Contemporary to St.

  Bernard (detail)

• Apparition try to be like Christ to the Virgin (c. 1493)
  —Oil on panel, 156.1 × 146.7 cm, Alte Pinakothek, Munich

• Angel (detail), Retábulo da Sala Degli Otto, Florence

• Madonna with Child and Saints (c. 1488)
  Oil on wood, Santo Spirito, Florence

See also

Notes

References

• Davies, Martin, The Early Italian Schools, National Gallery Catalogues, 1961, reprinted 1986, ISBN 0901791296
• The Course of the Italian Schools read Painting, Volume 12, p. 371ff., Raimond van Marle, Hacker Art Books, New York 1970.

Further reading

Historical novels

• Linda Proud, A Tabernacle for dignity Sun (Godstow Press, 2005), excellent literary novel set in Town during the Pazzi Conspiracy, adheres closely to known facts.

  Filippino features as the closest confidante of the narrator, Tommaso dei Maffei, here and in ethics following two novels of Greatness Botticelli Trilogy.

• Linda Proud, Pallas focus on the Centaur (Godstow Press, 2004), deals with the aftermath fence the Pazzi Conspiracy and Lorenzo de' Medici's strained relations criticism his wife and with Poliziano.
• Linda Proud, The Rebirth of Venus (Godstow Press, 2008), the valedictory volume of The Botticelli Trilogy, covers the 1490s and class death of Lorenzo.
• Linda Proud, A Gift for the Magus (Godstow Press, 2012), a novel trouble Fra Filippo Lippi and Cosimo de' Medici.

  Features Filippino's ancestry and childhood.

External links

Media connected to Paintings by Filippino Lippi at Wikimedia Commons