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Lippi, Fra Filippo
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Fra FILIPPO LIPPI
(Filippo di Tommaso di Lippo, 1406, Florence - 1469, Spoleto) was one of the most famous Florentine painters in his time. He became a Carmelite monk at St. Maria del Carmine in Florence in 1421. Fra Lippi probably observed Masaccio and Masolino working together on the frescoes in Brancacci chapel in St. Maria del Carmine, begun in 1424. This inspired him, in writing of Vasari, to become a painter. Among his patrons who commissioned paintings and frescoes were the most powerful families of Florence, including the Medici. When he was accused for fraud with a nun, Lucrezia Buti, who bore his son Filippino (in 1457) and a daughter Alessandra, Medici helped him to marry her. Since 1452 he lived mostly in Prato near Florence, where he painted frescoes from lives of St. Stephen and St. John the Baptist for the Cathedral. He combined Gothic vocabulary of form with the achievements of the Renaissance such as central perspective and corporeal figures. Among his pupils were also Sandro Botticelli and his son Filippino Lippi.
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