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Filippino Lippi (probably 1457 – 18 April 1504) was an Italian Renaissance painter mostly working in Florence, Italy during the later years of the Early Renaissance and first few years of the High Renaissance.
Filippino Lippi was an early Renaissance painter of the Florentine school whose works influenced the Tuscan Mannerists of the 16th century. The son of Fra Filippo Lippi and his wife, Lucrezia Buti, he was a follower of his father and of Sandro Botticelli.
Filippino Lippi was among the most gifted and accomplished Florentine painters and draftsmen of the second half of the fifteenth century. He was born around 1457, the product of a famous and illicit relationship between the painter Fra Filippo Lippi and the young nun Lucrezia Buti.
Filippino Lippi (Prato, April 1457 – Florence, 18 April 1504) was an Italian painter working in Florence, Italy during the later years of the Early Renaissance and first few years of the High Renaissance.
Energetic, incisive, spontaneous, and expressive, the drawings of Filippino Lippi (1457/58–1504) are among the most original and creative of the Italian Renaissance.
Biography. The son of Fra Filippo Lippi, Filippino began his training as a very young boy in his father's workshop. Documents record a partial payment he received in 1469 for the frescoes in the apse of the duomo in Spoleto, whose execution, interrupted by Fra Filippo's death that same year, was completed by the friar's associate Fra Diamante.
Filippino (' little Filippo') was probably born in Prato in 1457 following the elopement of his father Fra Filippo Lippi and Lucrezia Buti. Filippino was a leading Florentine exponent of the tradition of great fresco cycles, as well as an accomplished painter on panel.
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.
The Madonna and Child are shown in a contemporary Florentine palace. Through the window is an arcade with the armorial device of the wealthy Florentine banker Filippo Strozzi (three crescents). The background evokes the area around the Strozzi villa near Florence.
