Lorenzo Lippi (1606 - 1665)

• Was an Italian painter and poet.
• Born in Florence, he studied painting under Matteo Rosselli.
• After painting for some time in Florence, and having married at the age of forty the daughter of the rich sculptor named Giovanni Francesco Susini, Lippi went as court painter to Innsbruck.
• In Innsbruck, he wrote his humorous poem named Malmantile Racquistato, which was published under the anagrammatic pseudonym of Perlone Zipoli.
• Lippi was somewhat self-sufficient and arrogant, and, when visiting Parma, would not look at the famous paintings by Correggio there, saying that they could teach him nothing.
• He died of pleurisy in 1664, in Florence. 
• Among his pupils is Bartolomeo Bimbi.
• The displayed painting is a crop from: Portrait of Lorenzo Lippi, Francesco Zuccarelli, 1731.
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