Fra Filippo Lippi the Carmalite Painter

Widely admired for his paintings of exquisitely beautiful Madonnas, Florentine Renaissance friar artist Fra Filippo Lippi gained renown also for his love affair with the nun Lucrezia who bore their son, Filippino Lippi, later a well known painter himself. In this beautiful and compelling book, Megan Holmes shines new ligh on Lippi's life and career, from the first painting he created as a friar in Santa Maria del Carmine to the later works he painted when living outside the monastery for the Medici family, their supporters, and other patrons. Focusing especially on the fascinating conjunction of Lippi's work as a painter and his experiences as a Carmelite friar, Holmes transforms our understanding of Filippo Lippi and of the art that produced and viewed in fifteenth-century Florence.

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