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Filippino Lippi (c. 1457 - 1504 ) was a well-known painter working in High Renaissance Florence and Italy . BIOGRAPHY Born in Prato ( Tuscany ), the son of the painter Fra Filippo Lippi and Lucrezia Buti , Filippino first trained under his father. They moved to Spoleto , where Filippino served as shop Adjuvant in the construction of the Cathedral there. When his father died in 1469 , he completed the Frescoes with ''Storie della Vergine'' (''Histories of the Virgin'') in the cathedral. Filippino Lippi completed his apprenticeship in the workshop of Botticelli , who had been a pupil of Filippino's father. In 1472 , Botticelli also took him as his companion in the Compagnia Di San Luca . His first works greatly resemble those of Botticelli's, but with less sensitivity and subtlety. The very first ones (dating from , London and Washington , the ''Journeys of Tobia'' of the Galleria Sabauda in Turin , Italy , the ''Madonna of the Sea'' of Galleria dell'Accademia and the ''Histories of Ester''. Together with Perugino , Ghirlandaio and Botticelli, Lippi worked on the frescoed decoration of Lorenzo De Medici's villa at Spedaletto. On December 31 , 1482 he was commissioned to work on a wall of Sala dell'Udienza of Palazzo Vecchio in Florence (a work never begun). Soon after (probably in 1483 - 1484 ) he was called to complete Masaccio 's decoration of Brancacci Chapel in the Church Of The Carmine , left unfinished by the artist's death in 1428 . Here he realized the ''Stories of Saint Peter'' on the following frescoes: ''Quarrel with Simon Magus in face of Nero'', ''Resurrection of Teophilus' Son'', ''Saint Peter Jailed'', ''Liberation'' and ''Saint Peter's Crucifixion''. The work on the Sala degli Otto di Pratica, in the - 1486 years. Eventually he worked for Tanai de' Nerli in the Saint Spirit's Church. On and Paganism , was hotly debated in the Florence of Girolamo Savonarola . Filippino showed his characters in a landscape which recreated the Ancient World in its finest details, showing the influence of the Grottesco style he had seen in his journey to Rome . He created in this way an "animated", mysterious, fantastic but also disquieting style, showing the unreality of something as a nightmare. In this way, Filippino portrayed ruthless executioners deformed by grim faces, who raged against the Saint s. In the scene with ''St. Philip expelling a monster from the temple'', the statue of the Pagan god is a living figure which seems to dare the Christian saint. On 1488 Lippi moved to Rome , where Lorenzo De' Medici had advised Cardinal Oliviero Carafa to entrust him the decoration of the family chapel in Santa Maria Sopra Minerva . These frescoes show a new kind of inspiration, quite different from the earlier works, but confirm his continued research on the themes of the Ancient era. Lippi finished the cycle by 1493 . Lippi's return to , now in Munich ), '' Adoration Of The Magi '' ( 1496 , for the church of San Donato in Scopeto , now in the Uffizi ), ''Sacrifice of Lacoön'' (end of the century, for the villa of Lorenzo De' Medici at Poggio a Caiano), ''St John Baptist and Maddalena'' (Valori Chapel in San Procolo, Florence , inspired in some way to Luca Signorelli 's art). He also worked outside of his mother-country, namely on the Certosa of Pavia and in Prato , where in 1503 he completed the ''Tabernacle of the Christmas Song'', now in the City Museum; in 1501 Lippi realized the '' Mystic Marriage Of St Catherine '' for the Basilica San Domenico in Bologna . Lippi's last work is the ''Deposition'' for the Santissima Annunziata church in Florence , which at his death in April of 1504 was unfinished. He was so renowned that all the workshops of the city closed on the day of his burial. MAJOR WORKS
''See also Brancacci Chapel , Carafa Chapel , Strozzi Chapel '' EXTERNAL LINKS |
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