(b Prato, c. 1457; d Florence, 18 April 1504). Son of (1) Filippo Lippi. He was a painter of altarpieces, cassone panels and frescoes and also an exceptional draughtsman. His success lay in his ability to absorb, without slavishly following, the most popular trends in contemporary painting. He worked in Florence and Rome at a time when patrons were beginning to intermingle personal, religious, social and political ideals in their ambitions for palaces and chapels: with the support of wealthy and erudite patrons, such as Lorenzo de’ Medici (‘il Magnifico’) and Filippo Strozzi, he won important civic and private commissions. Lippi’s most distinguished achievement was the decoration of the Strozzi Chapel in S Maria Novella, Florence.

Part of the Lippi family

• Lippi, Filippino
  • Display of art, §IV: Drawings, prints and watercolours
  • Florence, §II, 1(ii): Art life and organization, c 1400–c 1530
  • Italy, §XIII, 1: Collecting and dealing: Middle Ages–17th century
  • Lippi
  • Rome, §III, 3: Art life and organization, 1420–1502
  • assistants
    • Raffaellino del Garbo
  • attributions
    • Hugford, Ignazio Enrico
    • Jacopo del Sellaio
  • collaboration
    • Baccio d’Agnolo, §1: Wood-carving
    • Ghirlandaio: (1) Domenico Ghirlandaio, §I, 2(i)(b): Frescoes, c 1480–90
    • Perugino, §I, 3: Life and work, 1482–c 1495
  • drawings
    • Cellini, Benvenuto, §I, 1: Florence and Rome before the Sack, 1500–27
    • Drawing, §III, 2(iii): Metalpoint
    • Lippi: (2) Filippino Lippi, §1(iv): Late works, 1494 and after
  • groups and movements
    • Renaissance, §3: Renaissance, 1450–c 1500
    • Renaissance, §4(iii)(a): High Renaissance: Painting and graphic art in Italy
  • paintings
    • frescoes
      • Brancacci Chapel (S Maria del Carmine, Florence)
        • Brancacci, Felice
        • Jacopo da Voragine
        • Masaccio, §I, 2(ii): Life and work, c 1427 and after: The Brancacci Chapel frescoes
        • Masolino, §2: The Brancacci Chapel frescoes and collaboration with Masaccio, c 1424–5
      • Carafa Chapel (S Maria sopra Minerva, Rome)
        • Grotesque, §2: 1480–1529
      • Strozzi Chapel (S Maria Novella, Florence)
        • Florence, §IV, 6: S Maria Novella
        • Italy, §III, 3(i)(d): Early Renaissance painting, c 1400–c 1500: Subject-matter & patronage
        • Mannerism, §3(iii): Formal language: Space
      • Villa Medici (Poggio a Caiano)
        • Villa, §II, 2: Renaissance and Baroque, c 1400–c 1700: Decoration
    • panel
      • altarpieces
        • Bartolommeo, Fra, §1(i)(c): Paintings, 1509–13
        • Leonardo da Vinci, §I, 3: Second Florentine period, 1500–mid-1508
        • Perugino, §III: Critical reception and posthumous reputation
      • religious
        • Berruguete: (2) Alonso Berruguete, §1: Italy, c 1508–16
        • Lippi: (2) Filippino Lippi, §1(ii): Early maturity, c 1485–7
      • spalliere
        • Spalliera, §2: Subject-matter
  • patrons and collectors
    • Benson, R(obert) H(enry)
      • Benson, R. H.
    • Butler, Charles (1822-1910)
      • Butler, Charles
    • Carafa, Oliviero, Cardinal
      • Carafa: (1) Oliviero Carafa
    • Hamilton, Alexander, 10th Duke of Hamilton and 7th Duke of Brandon
      • Hamilton, Alexander
    • Kerr, William Schomberg Robert, 8th Marquess of Lothian
      • Scotland, §XIII: Collecting and dealing
    • Lorenzo the Magnificent, Lord of Florence (reg 1469-92)
      • Medici, de’: (5) Lorenzo the Magnificent
      • Pliny: (1) Pliny the elder, §4: Influence
    • Strozzi, Filippo, the elder (1428-91)
      • Strozzi: (2) Filippo Strozzi
  • teachers
    • Botticelli, Sandro, §I, 1: Life and work, to c 1478