Filippino Lippi

{"Id":2693,"Name":"Filippino Lippi","Biography":"\u003Cstrong\u003ELIPPI, FILIPPINO (1457-1504),\u003C/strong\u003E was the natural son of \u003Ca href=\u0022http://www.artcyclopedia.com/artists/lippi_fra_filippo.html\u0022 target=\u0022_blank\u0022 class=\u0022link\u0022\u003EFra Lippo Lippi\u003C/a\u003E [c.1406-1469] and Lucrezia Buti, born in Florence and educated at Prato. Losing his father before he had completed his tenth year, the boy took up his avocation as a painter, studying under \u003Ca href=\u0022/asp/database/art.asp?aid=356\u0022 target=\u0022_blank\u0022 class=\u0022link\u0022\u003ESandro Botticelli\u003C/a\u003E [1445-1510] and probably under \u003Ca href=\u0022http://www.getty.edu/vow/ULANFullDisplay?find=Diamante\u0026role=\u0026nation=\u0026prev_page=1\u0026subjectid=500013392\u0022 target=\u0022_blank\u0022 class=\u0022link\u0022\u003EFra Diamante\u003C/a\u003E [c.1430-c.1490]. The style which he formed was to a great extent original, but it bears clear traces of the manner both of Lippo and of Botticelli, more ornamental than the first, more realistic and less poetical than the second. His powers developed early; for we find him an accomplished artist by 1480, when he painted an altarpiece, the \u003Cu\u003EVision of St. Bernard\u003C/u\u003E, now in the Badia of Florence; it is in tempera, with almost the same force as oil painting. Soon afterwards, probably from 1482 to 1490, he began to work upon the frescoes which completed the decoration of the Brancacci chapel in the Carmine, commenced by \u003Ca href=\u0022http://www.artcyclopedia.com/artists/masolino_da_panicale.html\u0022 target=\u0022_blank\u0022 class=\u0022link\u0022\u003EMasolino\u003C/a\u003E [c.1383-1447] and \u003Ca href=\u0022http://www.artcyclopedia.com/artists/masaccio.html\u0022 target=\u0022_blank\u0022 class=\u0022link\u0022\u003EMasaccio\u003C/a\u003E [1401-1428] many years before. He finished Masaccio\u0027s \u003Cu\u003EResurrection of the King\u0027s Son\u003C/u\u003E, and was the sole author of \u003Cu\u003EPaul\u0027s Interview with Peter in Prison\u003C/u\u003E, the \u003Cu\u003ELiberation of Peter\u003C/u\u003E, the \u003Cu\u003ETwo Saints before the Proconsul\u003C/u\u003E and the \u003Cu\u003ECrucifixion of Peter\u003C/u\u003E. These works are sufficient to prove that Lippino stood in the front rank of the artists of his time. The dignified and expressive figure of St Paul in the second-named subject has always been particularly admired, and appears to have furnished a suggestion to \u003Ca href=\u0022/asp/database/art.asp?aid=124\u0022 target=\u0022_blank\u0022 class=\u0022link\u0022\u003ERaphael\u003C/a\u003E [1483-1520] for his \u003Cu\u003EPaul at Athens\u003C/u\u003E. Portraits of \u003Ca href=\u0022http://www.newadvent.org/cathen/12562a.htm\u0022 target=\u0022_blank\u0022 class=\u0022link\u0022\u003ELuigi Pulci\u003C/a\u003E [1432-1484], \u003Ca href=\u0022http://www.artcyclopedia.com/artists/pollaiolo_antonio.html\u0022 target=\u0022_blank\u0022 class=\u0022link\u0022\u003EAntonio Pollajuolo\u003C/a\u003E [c.1432-1498], Lippino himself and various others are in this series. In 1485 he executed the great altarpiece of the \u003Cu\u003EVirgin and Saints\u003C/u\u003E, with several other figures, now in the \u003Ca href=\u0022http://www.uffizi.firenze.it/\u0022 target=\u0022_blank\u0022 class=\u0022link\u0022\u003EUffizi Gallery\u003C/a\u003E. Another of his leading works is the altarpiece for the Nerli chapel in S. Spirito, the \u003Cu\u003EVirgin Enthroned\u003C/u\u003E, with splendidly living portraits of Nerli and his wife, and a thronged distance. In 1489 Lippino was in Rome, painting in the church of the Minerva, having first passed through \u003Ca href=\u0022http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Spoleto\u0022 target=\u0022_blank\u0022 class=\u0022link\u0022\u003ESpoleto\u003C/a\u003E to design the monument for his father in the cathedral of that city. Some of his principal frescoes in the Minerva are still extant, the subjects being in celebration of \u003Ca href=\u0022http://www.newadvent.org/cathen/14663b.htm\u0022 target=\u0022_blank\u0022 class=\u0022link\u0022\u003ESt Thomas Aquinas\u003C/a\u003E [c.1225/1227-1274]. In one picture the saint is miraculously commended by a crucifix; in another, triumphing over heretics. In 1496 Lippino painted the \u003Cu\u003EAdoration of the Magi\u003C/u\u003E now in the Uffizi, a very striking picture, with numerous figures. This was succeeded by his last important undertaking, the frescoes in the Strozzi chapel, in the church of \u003Ca href=\u0022http://www.greatbuildings.com/buildings/S._Maria_Novella.html\u0022 target=\u0022_blank\u0022 class=\u0022link\u0022\u003ES. Maria Novella\u003C/a\u003E in Florence \u003Cu\u003EDrusiana Restored to Life by St John, the Evangelist\u003C/u\u003E, \u003Cu\u003ESt John in the Cauldron of Boiling Oil\u003C/u\u003E and two subjects from the legend of St Philip. These are conspicuous and attractive works, yet somewhat grotesque and exaggerated, full of ornate architecture, showy color and the distinctive peculiarities of the master. Filippino, who had married in 1497, died in 1505. The best reputed of his scholars was \u003Ca href=\u0022http://19.1911encyclopedia.org/R/RA/RAFFAELLINO_DEL_GARBO.htm\u0022 target=\u0022_self\u0022 class=\u0022link\u0022\u003ERaffaellino del Garbo\u003C/a\u003E [c.1476-1524].\u003Cbr\u003E\u003Cbr\u003ELike his father, Filippino had a most marked original genius for painting, and he was hardly less a chief among the artists of his time than Fra Filippo had been in his; it may be said that in all the annals of the art a rival instance is not to be found of a father and son each of whom had such pre-eminent natural gifts and leadership. The father displayed more of sentiment and candid sweetness of motive; the son more of richness, variety and lively pictorial combination. He was admirable in all matters of decorative adjunct and presentment, such as draperies, landscape backgrounds and accessories; and he was the first Florentine to introduce a taste for antique details of costume, \u0026c. He formed a large collection of objects of this kind, and left his designs of them to his son. In his later works there is a tendency to a mannered development of the extremities, and generally to facile overdoing. The \u003Ca href=\u0022http://www.nationalgallery.org.uk/\u0022 target=\u0022_blank\u0022 class=\u0022link\u0022\u003ENational Gallery\u003C/a\u003E, London, possesses a good and characteristic though not exactly a first-rate specimen of Lippino, the \u003Cu\u003EVirgin and Child between Sts Jerome and Dominic\u003C/u\u003E; also an \u003Cu\u003EAdoration of the Magi\u003C/u\u003E, of which recent criticism contests the authenticity. \u003Ca href=\u0022http://69.1911encyclopedia.org/C/CR/CROWE_SIR_JOSEPH_ARCHER.htm\u0022 target=\u0022_blank\u0022 class=\u0022link\u0022\u003ECrowe\u003C/a\u003E [1825-1896] and \u003Ca href=\u0022http://www.britannica.com/eb/article?eu=22227\u0026tocid=0\u0026query=giovanni%20battista%20donati\u0022 target=\u0022_blank\u0022 class=\u0022link\u0022\u003ECavalcaselle\u003C/a\u003E [1820-1897], supplemented by the writings of \u003Ca href=\u0022http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bernard_Berenson\u0022 target=\u0022_blank\u0022 class=\u0022link\u0022\u003EBerenson\u003C/a\u003E [1865-1959], should be consulted as to this painter. An album of his works is in Newnes Art Library.\u003Cbr\u003E\u003Cbr\u003E\u003Cstrong\u003E\u003Cu\u003ESource:\u003C/u\u003E\u003C/strong\u003E Entry on the artist in the \u003Ca href=\u0022http://67.1911encyclopedia.org/L/LI/LIPPI.htm\u0022 target=\u0022_blank\u0022\u003E1911 Edition Encyclopedia\u003C/a\u003E.\u003Cp\u003E","Awards":null,"HasAlbums":false,"HasPortraits":true,"HasRelationships":true,"HasArticles":false,"HasDepictedPlaces":false,"HasLetters":false,"HasLibraryItems":false,"HasProducts":true,"HasSignatures":false,"HasVideos":false,"HasMapLocations":true,"TotalArtworks":37}