(b Florence, c. 1406; d Spoleto, 9 Oct 1469). He was one of the leading painters in Renaissance Florence in the generation following Masaccio. Influenced by him in his youth, Filippo developed a linear, expressive style, which anticipated the achievements of his pupil Botticelli. Lippi was among the earliest painters indebted to Donatello. His mature works are some of the first Italian paintings to be inspired by the realistic technique (and occasionally by the compositions) of Netherlandish pioneers such as Rogier van der Weyden and Jan van Eyck. Beginning work in the late 1430s, Lippi won several important commissions for large-scale altarpieces, and in his later years he produced two fresco cycles that (as Vasari noted) had a decisive impact on 16th-century cycles. He produced some of the earliest autonomous portrait paintings of the Renaissance, and his smaller-scale Virgin and Child compositions are among the most personal and expressive of that era. Throughout most of his career he was patronized by the powerful Medici family and allied clans. The operation of his workshop remains a matter of conjecture.

Part of the Lippi family

• Lippi, Filippo (di Tommaso)
  • Domenico Veneziano, §1(iii): Other late works, mid-1440s and after
  • Italy, §III, 3(ii)(a): Early Renaissance painting, c 1400–c 1500: Florence
  • Lippi
  • Padua, §2: Art life and organization
  • Poliziano, Angelo
  • assistants
    • Diamante, Fra
    • Giusto d’Andrea
  • collaboration
    • Ansuino da Forlì
    • Giovanni di Francesco (i)
    • Masters, anonymous, and monogrammists, §I: Master of the Castello Nativity
    • Pesellino
    • Pizzolo, Niccolò
  • methods
    • Florence, §II, 1(ii): Art life and organization, c 1400–c 1530
  • patrons and collectors
    • Carmelite Order
      • Carmelite Order, §1: Iconography
    • Cosimo, Lord of Florence (reg 1434-64)
      • Medici, de’: (2) Cosimo de’ Medici
    • Doria-Pamphili, Alfonso, Prince
      • Doria, §Roman: branch
    • Eastlake, Charles Lock (1793-1865)
      • Eastlake: (1) Charles Lock Eastlake
    • Malatesta, Sigismondo Pandolfo
      • Malatesta: (1) Sigismondo Pandolfo Malatesta
    • Medici, Giovanni (di Cosimo) de' (1421-63)
      • Medici, de’: (4) Giovanni de’ Medici
    • Murray, Charles Fairfax
      • Murray, Charles Fairfax
    • Piero de' Medici, Lord of Florence (reg 1464-69)
      • Medici, de’: (3) Piero de’ Medici
    • Puccini, Tommaso
      • Puccini, Tommaso
    • Rucellai, Giovanni (di Paolo di Messer Paolo)
      • Rucellai: (1) Giovanni Rucellai
    • Sanford, John
      • Sanford, John
    • Solly, Edward
      • Solly, Edward
  • pupils
    • Botticelli, Sandro, §I, 1: Life and work, to c 1478
    • Carnevale, Fra
    • Jacopo del Sellaio
    • Lippi: (2) Filippino Lippi, §1(i): Training and early work in Florence and Lucca, before c 1485
    • Masters, anonymous, and monogrammists, §I: Master of the Barberini Panels
    • Masters, anonymous, and monogrammists, §I: Master of the Gardner Annunciation
  • sculpture
    • Florence, §IV, 5: S Lorenzo
  • works
    • Domenico Veneziano, §1(i): Early works, to mid-1440s
    • Frame, §I, 4: Framemakers and reframing
    • Frame, §II, 3(i): Italian Early Renaissance
    • Frame, §II, 3(v): Italian Renaissance: Tondo frames
    • Gothic, §VIII, 10: Stained glass: Italy
    • Illusionism, §1: Before c 1450
    • Italy, §III, 3(i)(d): Early Renaissance painting, c 1400–c 1500: Subject-matter & patronage
    • Lippi: (1) Filippo Lippi, §1(ii): Life and work, 1437–52
    • Lippi: (1) Filippo Lippi, §1(iii): Life and work, 1452–69
    • Prato
    • Sacra conversazione
    • Still-life, §2: 14th to 17th centuries: Renaissance and Baroque