FRA FILIPPO DI TOMMASO LIPPI was one of the foremost Florentine painters of the early Renaissance. His religious painting are always decorative and full of keen observation and human interest. One of the best colorists and draftsmen of his day.
Fra Filippo Lippi, was born in the year 1406, Fra Filippo Lippi who was born in
Florence, Italy, in a side street called Ardiglione, under the Canto alla Cuculia, behind the convent of the Carmelite. He was left at the age of two in great poverty by the death of his father Tommaso, his mother died shortly after. Mona Paccia, his father's sister, took care of him after both of the parents deaths. His aunt had great difficulty caring for him until he reached the age of eight, then she could no longer care for him, and made him a friar in the convent of the Carmine. Fra Lippi never took his work seriously and he was very clumsy. Instead of studying and trying to get good grades he did nothing but cover his books and cover them with......

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