Filippino Lippi

Filippino Lippi (self-portrait)

Vision of St. Bernhard , around 1486

Filippino Lippi (* around 1457 in Prato ; † April 18, 1504 in Florence ) was an Italian Renaissance painter . With the restless lines and the sometimes gloomy coloring of his late work, he was a forerunner of Italian mannerism . The first name Filippino is a later designation of the art historians to distinguish it from his father; in his day he was called Filippo and was only called that.

Life

Lippi learned to paint in the painting workshop of his father Fra Filippo Lippi , after his death in 1469 in the workshop of Fra Don Diamante , a friend of his father's. His early work was influenced by the painter Sandro Botticelli , with whom he had worked since 1472 and who had been a student of his father. In addition, his works have been heavily inspired by Flemish painting. From 1482 to 1484 Filippino Lippi completed Masaccio's frescoes in the Brancacci Chapel of the Santa Maria del Carmine Church in Florence. For a while he stayed in Rome, where he studied antiquity. From 1489 to 1493 he created the frescoes in the Carafa chapel of the Roman church of Santa Maria sopra Minerva , at that time the Roman church of the Florentines. His main client was Lorenzo il Magnifico in Florence, his specialty was fresco painting.

“Filippo” was highly praised by his contemporaries and described as a polite and amiable comrade and fellow citizen. He was considered very sensitive, but humorous. He died of an acute sore throat. He left a large fortune and several houses to his three young sons and his wife Maddalena di Piero Paolo Monti, whom he married in 1497.

Selection of works

• Tobias and the Angel (ca.1475–1480, National Gallery of Art , Washington, DC)
• Vision of St. Bernhard (around 1486, Badia Fiorentina , Florence)
• The Intercession of Christ and Mary (around 1495, Alte Pinakothek , Munich)
• Adoration of the Magi (1496, Uffizi Gallery , Florence)
• Cycle of frescoes in the Filippo Strozzi Chapel of the Church of Santa Maria Novella (Florence): Scenes from the life of Saints John and Philip (approx. 1497–1502, Florence)
• Mystical Marriage of St. Catherine (1501, Bologna )
• Martyrdom of St. Sebastian ( Palazzo Bianco , Genoa )
• The Wounded Centaur , Christ Church Picture Gallery , Oxford
• Frescoes in the Carafa Chapel of the Church of Santa Maria sopra Minerva , Rome : The Assumption of Mary , The Annunciation , The Triumph of St. Thomas and The Miracle of St. Thomas Aquinas

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  Filippino Lippi, Madonna and Child, 1486, Florence

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  Filippino Lippi, Adoration of the Magi , 1496, Uffizi Gallery , Florence

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  Filippino Lippi, Portrait of a Young Man, National Gallery of Art , Washington

• Frescoes by Filippino Lippi in the Filippo Strozzi Chapel of the Santa Maria Novella Church in Florence
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literature

• Antonio Paolucci: Filippino Lippi . Cantini, Florence, 1992, ISBN 88-7737-171-4 .
• Alfred Scharf: Filippino Lippi , Verlag Anton Schroll & Co., Vienna 1950.
• Enrico Parlato:  Lippi, Filippino. In: Mario Caravale (ed.): Dizionario Biografico degli Italiani (DBI). Volume 65:  Levis-Lorenzetti. Istituto della Enciclopedia Italiana, Rome 2005.

Web links

Commons : Filippino Lippi  - Collection of images, videos and audio files

• Literature by and about Filippino Lippi in the catalog of the German National Library
• Filippino Lippi in the Metropolitan Museum of Art