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Filippino Lippi (1457-1504)

• Was an Italian painter working in Florence.
• Filippino Lippi was born in Prato, Tuscany.
• He was the illegitimate son of the painter Fra Filippo Lippi and Lucrezia Buti.
• Filippino first trained under his father.
• They moved to Spoleto, where Filippino served as workshop adjuvant in the construction of the Cathedral.
• When his father died in 1469, he completed the frescoes with Storie della Vergine (Histories of the Virgin) in the cathedral.
• Lippi completed his apprenticeship in the workshop of Botticelli, who had been a pupil of Filippino's father.
• In 1472 the records of the painters' guild record that Botticelli had only Filippino Lippi as an assistant.
• Filippino depicted his characters in a landscape which recreated the ancient world in its finest details.
• The displayed painting is a crop from: Portrait of a Youth, c. 1485.
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