Filippino lippi biography of donald

Filippino Lippi was among the most gifted and accomplished Florentine painters and draftsmen of the second half of the fifteenth century.

Filippino found great success as an independent painter in late Quattrocento Florence and won the favor of patrician families as well as the patronage of.

Filippino Lippi ('little Filippo') was the son of Fra Filippo Lippi and the nun Lucrezia Buti.

Filippino Lippi was the son of the Florentine painter Filippo Lippo who died when Filippino (little Filippo) was about 12 years old.

Filippo grew up an orphan and very poor.

Charles Robertson studied history and history of art at University College, Lon- don and history of art at the Courtauld Institute of Art. In he.

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. Trained first by his father, he entered the workshop of Sandro Botticelli in 1472, three years after his father’s death.

He went out on his own a few years later, having developed a manner that was deeply imbued with the influence of his two great masters.

From the first, Filippino’s style as a painter and draftsman was marked by animated form and line, as well as a rather warm colorism.

These features are evident in relatively early works such as the Tobias and the Angel (National Gallery, Washington, D.C.) and the Adoration of the Kings (National Gallery, London), which also contain a vivid and naturalistic rendering of landscape.

Filippino’s firs