Fra Filippo Lippi, ca.(1406–1469)

• Also known as Lippo Lippi.
• Was an Italian painter of the Quattrocento (15th century).
• Lippi was born in Florence in 1406 to Tommaso, a butcher, and his wife.
• When he was still a small child, both his parents died.
• He was sent to live with his aunt Mona Lapaccia; however, because she was too poor to rear him, she placed him in the neighboring Carmelite convent.
• He was eight years old when he left for the convent and started his education there.
• In 1420 he was admitted to the community of Carmelite friars of the Priory of Our Lady of Mount Carmel in Florence, taking religious vows in the Order the following year, at the age of sixteen.
• He was ordained as a priest in approximately 1425 and remained in residence of that priory until 1432.
• Giorgio Vasari, the first art historian of the Renaissance, writes that Lippi was inspired to become a painter by watching Masaccio at work in the Carmine church.
• The displayed painting is a crop from Fra Filippo Lippi, Portrait of a Woman with a Man at a Casement, ca. 1442.
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Fra Filippo Lippi, Portrait of a Woman with a Man at a Casement, ca. 1442

Original, The Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York. Visited in 2017-2024.

Fra Filippo Lippi, Portrait of a Woman with a Man at a Casement, ca. 1442

Fra Filippo Lippi, Madonna and Child Enthroned with Two Angels, c. 1440

Original, The Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York. Visited in 2017-2024.

Fra Filippo Lippi, Madonna and Child Enthroned with Two Angels, c. 1440

Fra Filippo Lippi, Mary, adoring the child, with the Boy of St. John and St. Romuald (The Adoration in the Forest), c. 1459

Original, Staatliche Museum in Berlin, Gemäldegalerie. Visited in 2019.

Fra Filippo Lippi, Mary, adoring the child, with the Boy of St. John and St. Romuald (The Adoration in the Forest), c. 1459

Fra Filippo Lippi, Virgin and Child, ca. 1460-65

Original, The Pinakotheken, Munich. Visited 2019.

Studio of Fra Filippo Lippi, Saint Catharine of Alexandria (left), and a Saint (right)

Original, Worcester Art Museum, MA. Visited in 2020.

Studio of Fra Filippo Lippi - Saint Catharine of Alexandria (left), and a Saint (right)

Studio of Fra Filippo Lippi, Saint Catharine of Alexandria (left), and a Saint (right)

Fra Filippo Lippi, Pair of Panels from a Triptych The Archangel Michael and St. Anthony Abbot, 1458

Original, The Cleveland Museum of Art. Visited in 2020.

Fra Filippo Lippi, Pair of Panels from a Triptych The Archangel Michael and St. Anthony Abbot, 1458

Follower of Filippo Lippi, Virgin and Child with Angels, c. 1460

Original, The Cleveland Museum of Art. Visited in 2020.

Follower of Filippo Lippi, Virgin and Child with Angels, c. 1460

Fra Filippo Lippi, The Virgin and Child Surrounded by Angels and Saints Frediano and Augustine, 1437

Original, Louvre Museum, Paris. Visited in 2021.

Fra Filippo Lippi, The Virgin and Child Surrounded by Angels and Saints Frediano and Augustine, 1437

Fra Filippo Lippi, Saint Jerome in the Desert with Saints John the Baptist and Ansanus, c. 1455

Original, Harvard Art Museums, Cambridge. Visited in 2023.

Fra Filippo Lippi, Saint Jerome in the Desert with Saints John the Baptist and Ansanus, c. 1455