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Filippino Lippi was an Italian Renaissance painter born probably in 1457 at Prato, Tuscany, who died on the 18th of April 1504. He was the illegitimate son of the painter Fra Filippo Lippi and the nun Lucrezia Buti, and he worked primarily in Florence, with periods in Rome, Pavia, and Bologna.
The Apparition of the Virgin to Saint Bernard, dated 1485-1487 and housed in the Badia Fiorentina in Florence, is considered Filippino Lippi's most popular painting. It is known for its elongated figures, fantastical rock formations, and nearly anthropomorphic tree trunks.
Filippino completed his apprenticeship in Botticelli's workshop after his father's death. By 1472, guild records show Filippino was Botticelli's only assistant and was living in his master's house. The two collaborated so closely that their Madonna and Child panels from those years are often difficult to distinguish from one another.
Around 1483-1484, Filippino Lippi was commissioned to complete the Brancacci Chapel in Santa Maria del Carmine in Florence, left unfinished since Masaccio's death in 1428. He painted scenes including the Quarrel with Simon Magus before Nero, the Resurrection of the Son of Teophilus, and the Crucifixion of Saint Peter, and he included his own self-portrait at age twenty-five in the central panel.
On the 21st of April 1487, Filippo Strozzi commissioned Filippino Lippi to decorate the Strozzi family chapel in Santa Maria Novella in Florence with scenes from the lives of Saint John the Evangelist and Saint Philip. Filippino worked on the project intermittently and only completed it in 1503, after Strozzi had died, finishing the musical-themed windows between June and July of that year.
Filippino Lippi's final work, the Deposition for the Santissima Annunziata church in Florence, was left unfinished at his death on the 18th of April 1504. Perugino, who like Filippino had been a pupil of Fra Filippo Lippi, completed the panel in 1507. It now hangs in the Galleria dell'Accademia in Florence.