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Filippino Lippi
Italian painter
Lippi, Filippino: The Meeting of Joachim and Anne Outside the Golden Gate of Jerusalem
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- Born:
- c. 1457, Prato, Republic of Florence
- Died:
- April 18, 1504, Florence
- Movement / Style:
- Early Renaissance
- Renaissance
Filippino Lippi (born c. 1457, Prato, Republic of Florence—died April 18, 1504, Florence) was an early Renaissance painter of the Florentine school whose works influenced the Tuscan Mannerists of the 16th century. The son of Fra Filippo Lippi and his wife, Lucrezia Buti, he was a follower of his father and of Sandro Botticelli. After Fra Filippo Lippi’s death, Filippino entered the workshop of Botticelli. By 1473 he had finished his apprenticeship. The style of Filippino’s earliest works stems from that of Botticelli, but Filippino’s use of line is less sensitive and subtle than Botticelli’s. In a group of paintings ...(100 of 313 words)