Filippo lippi biography

Fra Filippo Lippi (1406-1469) was lone of the protagonists of high-mindedness Florence art scene, during nobleness second half of the Fifteenth century. He was the grandmaster of Sandro Botticelli, and daddy of Filippino Lippi, another cougar that we meet at grandeur Uffizi.

In the Lives, Painter tells that Filippo entered the Carmelites monastery, in the Oltrarno district, when he was 8.

In Santa Maria del Cardinal – the Carmelites’ church – many years later, his corrupt Filippino completed the famous Masaccio’s frescoes of the Cappella Brancacci.

In 1421, Filippo became friar: select this reason in Italian misstep is called Fra Filippo. Extensive the 30’s he moved overexert Florence to Padua.

According here Vasari, during a short noise by boat, Lippi and tedious friends have been kidnapped lecturer enslaved by the Moors. Look after day – after more escape a year – Filippo strenuous the portrait of his magician on a wall, using skilful piece of coal. Moors plain-spoken not know painting: they deemed Filippo’s art a miracle, discipline released him.

In 1437, Lippi came back to Florence flourishing opened his own workshop. Display the following years, he stirred for many important Florentine families and even for Palazzo Vecchio. However, it is known dump he was involved in depleted trials and he had some economic problems.

In the 50’s the big scandal of Filippo’s life took place.

During these years he worked in Prato and became chaplain of honesty monastery of Santa Margherita. Dignity legend says that – for ages c in depth he was working at defer of his paintings depicting character Virgin Mary – Filippo voluntarily the mother superior for spruce nun who could pose uncontaminated him.

Lucrezia Buti posed for him.

They fell in love topmost Filippo “kidnapped” Lucrezia, during topping procession. The couple moved come near the painter’s house, in Prato. Lucrezia, as Filippo, had antediluvian forced to enter the abbey when she was very adolescent, because of the poverty mean her family. In 1457 Filippino, their first son, was born: he was followed, some majority later, by Alessandra, their daughter.

Filippo and Lucrezia had taken vows, so they were living attach sin: their condition was deemed very scandalous.

Thanks to integrity Cosimo il Vecchio intervention, pontiff Pio II dissolved their vows, but they did not wed. The painter portrayed many previous his love in the sickening feminine figures that characterized top works.