According to the National Gallery of Art in DC Fra Lippo Lippi was born around 1406 in Florence. HE was orphaned at a young age and was sent with his brother to a monastery.
He took the vows of a Carmelite monk in 1421 and the gallery speculates he must have had his artist training in the monastery. He was one of the first Italian painters to be influenced by artists from the Netherlands and their realistic portrayal of surfaces, depicting the Virgin and Child in a domestic setting and creating independent portraits.
Filippo was a sought after artist and enjoyed the patronage of Cosimo de Medici. The Medici were the most powerful family in Florence.
He had long term relationship with Lucrezia Buti and they had a son together- Pilippino Lippi. With the help of Cosimo the Pope allowed him to leave the order and him and Lucrezia married and had daughter.
Follower of Fra Filippo Lippi and Peselino
Madonna and Child, 1470
In the 1440s Fra Angelico and Fra Filippo Lippi started working together and this beautiful adoration scene is from that collaboration.
Fra Angelico and Fra Filippo Lippi
The Adoration of the Magi, 1440/1460
Filippo maintained one of the two busiest workshops in Florence and trained the great Botticelli.
He was an innovative, influential, controversial, artist, business owner, lover, monk, teacher, orphan, husband and father.
Sources: NGA-National Gallery of Art
Fra Angelico, Fra Filippo Lippi, The Adoration of the Magi, c. 1440/1460
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