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''For the band see Fra Lippo Lippi . For the Robert Browning poem, see Fra Lippo Lippi (poem) ''. Fra' Filippo Lippi ( 1406 – October 8 1469 ), also called '''Lippo Lippi''', was an Italian painter of the Italian Quattrocento ( 15th Century ) school. BIOGRAPHY AND WORKS Lippi was born in Florence to Tommaso, a butcher. Both his parents died when he was still a child. Mona Lapaccia, his aunt, took charge of the boy. In 1420 he was registered in the community of the Carmelite friars of the Carmine in Florence, where remained until 1432. In his '' Lives Of The Artists ,'' Vasari says: "Instead of studying, he spent all his time scrawling pictures on his own books and those of others," The prior decided to give him the opportunity to learn painting. Eventually Fra Filippo quit the monastery, but it appears he was not released from his vows; in a letter dated 1439 he describes himself as the poorest friar of Florence, charged with the maintenance of six marriageable nieces. In 1452 he was appointed chaplain to the convent of S. Giovannino in Florence, and in 1457 rector (''Rettore Commendatario'') of S. Quirico in Legania, and made occasional, considerable profits; but his poverty seems chronic, his money being spent, according to one account, in frequent ''amours''. Vasari relates some romantic adventures of Fra Filippo that modern biographers are not inclined to believe. Except through Vasari, nothing is known of his visits to Ancona and Naples , nor of his capture by Barbary pirates and enslavement in Barbary , where his skill in portrait-sketching helped to release him. From 1431 to 1437 his career is not accounted for. | ||
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