Filippino lippi biography of abraham

Biography

Florentine painter, the son and pupil of Fra Filippo Lippi. who died when the boy was about 12.

Filippino lippi biography of abraham

The boy completed his father's work (or at least cleared up his estate) in Spoleto (the final receipts for Filippo's frescoes in the Spoleto Cathedral was signed by Filippino) and he set off alone for Florence on 1 January 1470. He also studied with Botticelli and learned much from his expressive use of line, but Filippino's style, although sensitive and poetic, is more robust than his master's.

The first certainly datable work by Filippino is the Annunciation on two tondi (1483-84, San Gimignano).

His first major commission was the completion of Masaccio's and Masolino's fresco cycle in the Brancacci Chapel of Sta Maria del Carmine, which had either been left unfinished by Masaccio or had been partially destroyed.

This task he carried out with such skill and tact that it is sometimes difficult to tell where his work begins and that of more than half a century earlier ends.