FILIPPO, a distinguished Italian writer on the history of the arts, was born at Florence about 1624. His chief work is entitled Notizie de' Professori del Disegno da Cinabro in qua, Secolo e dal 1610 ad 1670, and was first published in six vols. 4to, in 1681–8. An edition in twenty vols. 8vo, with notes by Manni, was published at Florence in 1767–74. The capital defect of this work is his puerile attempt to derive Italian art from the schools of Florence; in which he has been often refuted, especially by Malvasia and Lanzi. Baldinucci died in 1696.