Robert Browning’s“Fra Lippo Lippi”

versus“Pictor Ignotus”

Battling Perspectives on the Visual Arts

Giotto di Bondone’s “Madonna and Child

Enthroned with Saints” (c.1305-10)

see “Fra Lippo Lippi”(ll.189-90)

Giotto di Bondone’s

“The Mourning of Christ”

see “Fra Lippo

Lippi” (ll.189-90)

Fra Angelico’s “Annunciation” (1450)see “Fra Lippo Lippi” (l.235)

Fra Angelico’s “Madonna with Angel

and the Saints Dominic and Catherine”

see “Fra Lippo Lippi”(l.236)

Masaccio’s “Expulsion from the Garden of Eden” (c.1424-28)

see “Fra Lippo Lippi” (ll.273-80)

Masaccio’s “The Tribute Money” (c.1425-27)see “Fra Lippo Lippi” (ll.273-80)

Fra Lippo Lippi’s“Madonna and

Child”

Fra Lippo Lippi’s“Madonna with

Child and Angels” (1465)

Fra Lippo Lippi’s“Madonna and Child” (1460s)

Fra Lippo Lippi’s “Herod’s Banquet” (1452-65)a fresco at the Duomo in Prato, Italy