Lorenzo Lippi (3 May 1606 – 15 April 1665) was an Italian

painter Painting is the practice of applying paint, pigment, color or other medium to a solid surface (called the "matrix" or "support"). The medium is commonly applied to the base with a brush, but other implements, such as knives, sponges, and ...

and

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Biography

Born in

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, he studied painting under

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. Both

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and Francesco Furini were also apprenticed with Rosselli, the influence of whose style, and more especially of that of

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, is to be traced in Lippi's works, which are marked by taste, delicacy and a strong turn for portrait-like naturalism. His maxim was to poetize as he spoke, and to paint as he saw. His biography was recounted by

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. After painting for some time in Florence, and having married at the age of forty the daughter of the rich sculptor named

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, Lippi went as

court painter A court painter was an artist who painted for the members of a royal or princely family, sometimes on a fixed salary and on an exclusive basis where the artist was not supposed to undertake other work. Painters were the most common, but the cour ...

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, where he has left many excellent portraits. In Innsbruck, he wrote his humorous poem named ''Malmantile Racquistato'', which was published under the anagrammatic pseudonym of Perlone Zipoli. The ''Malmantile Racquistato'' is a

mock-heroic Mock-heroic, mock-epic or heroi-comic works are typically satires or parodies that mock common Classical stereotypes of heroes and heroic literature. Typically, mock-heroic works either put a fool in the role of the hero or exaggerate the heroic ...

romance, mostly compounded out of a variety of popular tales; its principal subject matter is an expedition for the recovery of a fortress and territory whose queen had been expelled by a female usurper. It is full of graceful or racy Florentine idioms, and is counted by Italians as a ''testo di lingua''. Lippi is remembered more for this poem than by his paintings. It was published posthumously in 1688. Lippi was somewhat self-sufficient and arrogant, and, when visiting

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, would not look at the famous paintings by

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there, saying that they could teach him nothing. He died of

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in 1664, in Florence. The most esteemed works of Lippi as a painter are a ''Crucifixion'' in the

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gallery at Florence, and a ''Triumph of David'' which he executed for the salon of

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, introducing into it portraits of the seventeen children of the owner. Among his pupils is

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. He should not be confused with the Quattrocento-Renaissance, father-son pair of Florentine painters

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and

Filippino Lippi Filippino Lippi (April 1457 – 18 April 1504) was an Italian painter working in Florence, Italy during the later years of the Early Renaissance and first few years of the High Renaissance. Biography Filippino Lippi was born in Prato, Tu ...

, or with Italian poet Lorenzo Lippi da Colle (1440–85).

Gallery

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. (1649) Claudia de' Medici wearing the coronet of an Archduchess of Austria by Lorenzo Lippi.jpg, Claudia de' Medici Lorenzo Lippi 006.jpg,

Vittoria della Rovere Vittoria della Rovere (7 February 1622 – 5 March 1694) was Grand Duchess of Tuscany as the wife of Grand Duke Ferdinando II. She had four children with her husband, two of whom would survive infancy: the future Cosimo III, Tuscany's longest ...

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San Gaetano, Florence San Gaetano, also known as Santi Michele e Gaetano, is a Baroque church in Florence, Italy, located on the Piazza Antinori, entrusted to the Institute of Christ the King Sovereign Priest. History A Romanesque church, dedicated solely to '' ...

Lorenzo Lippi Madonna.jpg, ''Madonna and Child with young St John the Baptist''

References

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Monograph on Lippi

External links

* {{DEFAULTSORT:Lippi, Lorenzo 1606 births 1665 deaths 17th-century Italian painters Italian male painters Painters from Florence Italian poets Italian male poets Court painters