By Fra Filippo LIPPI - pps

Paintings in the 1430sby Fra Filippo Lippi

• Nothing is known of Lippi's artistic origins and early style. The first information that can be offered falls into the 1430s. In 1432 Lippi probably painted a fresco in the cloister of Santa Maria del Carmine, the so-called Rules of the Carmelite Order, and in the same year he apparently left the convent permanently. A small cutdown painting of a Madonna and Child with Saints (in Empoli) has good claim to predate the Rules of the Carmelite Order and to be Lippi's. The picture is notably Masaccesque; recalling to a certain extent the central section of the Pisa Altarpiece, upon which Lippi may even have worked.

• Lippi was in Padua in 1434 and perhaps earlier, where he was recorded together with Francesco Squarcione, the local painter and powerful personality. Back in Florence, he signed and dated the Tarquinia Madonna in 1437 and obtained an important commission for an altarpiece, the Madonna Enthroned with Saints for the Barbadori family chapel in Santo Spirito, which he apparently finished during the following year.

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Madonna and Child Enthroned with Saints

Madonna and Child Enthroned with Saints (detail)

Madonna of Humility (Trivulzio Madonna)

Confirmation of the Carmelite Rule (detail)

The Penitent St Jerome with a Young Monk

Madonna with Child (Tarquinia Madonna)

Madonna and Child Enthroned with Two Angels

The Doctors of the Church

Madonna and Child with Saints, Angels, and a Donor

Man of Sorrows

Madonna and Child with St Fredianus and St Augustine

St Fredianus Diverts the River Serchio

Madonna and Child

Paintings in the 1440sby Fra Filippo LIPPI

• In 1442, with Medici support, Pope Eugenius IV awarded Lippi an important benefice. A large payment was made in 1447 for St Bernard's Vision of the Virgin (National Gallery, London), produced for the Palazzo della Signoria, as well as final payments for the Coronation of the Virgin, made for Sant'Ambrogio, which was commissioned in 1441.

• The Annunciation in the Church of San Lorenzo is among the most successful paintings of Lippi's middle period, with a daring balance of figures, architecture, and landscape. The Annunciation appears to utilize the natural sources within the church itself, which was designed by Filippo Brunelleschi.

• Many critics have presumed an interlude during the late 1440s when Fra Filippo was strongly attracted to the painting of Fra Angelico to such a point that a direct collaboration between the two masters has been postulated for the Adoration of the Magi, a tondo rich in detail and incidentals.

Partea II

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Madonna and Child

Portrait of a Man and a Woman

Portrait of a Woman

Annunciation with two Kneeling Donors

Annunciation

Coronation of the Virgin

Coronation of the Virgin (detail)

Coronation of the Virgin

Adoration of the Magi

Annunciation

Madonna Enthroned with Saints

The Virgin Appears to St Bernard

Annunciation

Seven Saints

Paintings in the 1450sby Fra Filippo LIPPI

• The Pitti Tondo, one of the most celebrated and most beautiful works of Fra Filippo was executed in about 1452. He began to fresco the enormous choir of the Cathedral of Prato in 1452 (after Fra Angelico had turned down the assignment). He was aided by his chief assistant of the period, Fra Diamante; the work dragged on for years. In Prato Lippi also obtained a number of other assignments (such as the Madonna del Ceppo and the Madonna della Cintola) and purchased a house there in 1455. By 1458 he completed a painting for the king of Naples, a commission negotiated by the Medici, for whom Filippo produced an Adoration of the Child in c. 1460.

Partea III

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Madonna with the Child and Scenes from the Life of St Anne1452

Madonna with the Child and Scenes from the Life of St Anne

1452

Madonna del Ceppo1453

Adoration of the Childc. 1455

by Fra Filippo LIPPI

Partea IV

In spite of his secular activitiesFra Filippo's late works are infused with religious

feeling and are far more lyrical than the early ones. The Madonna in the Forest in Berlin, the Adoration of the Child in Florence and Prato and the popular Madonna

with the Child in Florence are examples. From 1466 until his death in 1469 he seem s to have been in bad health and most of the work was done by pupils and

assistants.

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Madonna in the Forest

Madonna in the Forest (copy on the altar of the chapel)

Madonna in the Forest (detail)

Adoration of the Child with Saints

Adoration of the Child with Saints (detail)

Adoration of the Child with Saints

Pietà

Funeral of St Jerome (detail)

Funeral of St Jerome (detail)

Funeral of St Jerome (detail)

Circumcision

Madonna and Child Madonna and Child

Madonna with the Child and two Angels Gata

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