filippino lippi // biography (c. 1457-1504) / gallery / prints

FILIPPINO LIPPI

Known as: Italian High Renaissance Painter

Born: c. 1457, Prato, Italy

Date of death: April, 1504

Filippino Lippi was born to parents both in Holy Orders. He began as a painter at an early age, trained by his father, Fra Filippo Lippi and assisting him in his work. When his father died when he was only 12 years old, Fillipino completed the frescoes in the Spoleto Cathedral.

Botticelli had also been a pupil of his father, and Filippino completed his apprenticeship in the workshop of the great master.

Works Include:

Journeys of Tobia (Galleria Sabauda in Turin, Italy)
Madonna of the Sea (Galleria dell'Accademia)
Frescoed decoration of Lorenzo de Medici's villa at Spedaletto (with Perugino, Ghirlandaio and Botticelli)
Madonna with Child, St Anthony of Padua and a Friar (Museum of Fine Arts, Budapest) (before 1480)
The Coronation of the Virgin (National Gallery of Art, Washington) (c. 1480)
Stories of Saint Peter (completion of Masaccio's unfinished decoration of Brancacci Chapel in the church of the Carmine) (c. 1483-1484)
Portrait of an Old Man (Uffizi, Florence) (1485)
Portrait of a Youth (National Gallery of Art, Washington) (c. 1485)
Self-Portrait (Uffizi, Florence)
Work on the Sala degli Otto di Pratica, Palazzo Vecchio (Uffizi, Florence) (1486)
Apparition of the Virgin to St Bernard (Badia Fiorentina, Florence) (1480-1486)
Stories of St John Evangelist and St Philip (Filippo Strozzi family chapel, Santa Maria Novella) (1487-1503)
Madonna with Child and Saints (Santo Spirito, Florence) (c. 1488)
St Jerome (Uffizi, Florence) (1490s)
Apparition of Christ to Madonna (Munich) (1493)
Adoration of the Magi (church of San Donato in Scopeto) (Uffizi, Florence) (1496)
Allegory (Uffizi, Florence) (c. 1498)
Sacrifice of Lacoön (for the villa of Lorenzo de' Medici at Poggio a Caiano) (1499)
St John Baptist and Maddalena (Valori Chapel in San Procolo, Florence)
Certosa of Pavia
Allegory of Music (Erato) (Staatliche Museen, Berlin) (c. 1500)
Mystic Wedding of St Catherine (Basilica of San Domenico, Bologna) (1501)
Tabernacle of the Christmas Song (City Museum, Prato) (1503)
Deposition for the Santissima Annunziata church (Florence) (unfinished) (1504)