LIPPI, FILIPPO or FILIPPINO, the son of Fra Filippo Lippi, was born in 1459. After the death of his father, he was brought up and instructed by Sandro Botticelli, and also to some extent educated by Fra Diamante. He soon exhibited great invention, and devoting himself ardently to the study of Roman antiquities, introduced into his works banners, mantles, the toga, buskins, helmets, and arms of every description. He was one of the first painters who devoted much attention to such embellishments. At Florence, he completed the chapel of the Brancacci, introducing the portraits of several of his friends. In his picture of Peter Condemned to Death, we have his own portrait as a young man; but as he never painted it again, we cannot obtain any likeness of him at a more advanced time of life. He went to Rome on the invitation of Lorenzo de' Medici to paint a chapel for Cardinal Caraffa. He chose for his subject Events from the Life of Thomas Aquinas; but he introduced a good deal of fictitious matter into these compositions. He returned to Florence, and painted the Strozzi Chapel, in the church of Santa Maria Novella; on one side is the Resurrection of Drusiana by John the Evangelist, and on the other, San Filippo in the Temple of Mars. His works are very numerous, but the best are those above mentioned. He died in 1505, in the forty-fifth year of his age.
Lippi,
Lorenzo
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Lipsius,
Justus.