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Title: Fra Filippo Lippi
Year: 1901 (1900s)
Authors: Strutt, Edward C
Subjects: Lippi, Filippo, ca. 1406-1469
Publisher: London, G. Bell and sons
Contributing Library: University of California Libraries
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From the preceding pages, in which we havebriefly reviewed Fra FIlIppos panel pictures, it willbe seen that the latter constitute in themselves anartistic production sufficient to give the Prato periodan Important place in the history of the friarsascending career. The Pitti tondo and the UffiziMadonna alone are worth all Fra FIlIppos earlierworks. But it was with his epoch-making frescoesin the Duomo of Prato, as I have said in the begin-ning of this chapter, and not with his panel pictures,that the friar made a successful bid for immortalityand stepped at once into the foremost rank ofQuattrocento artists. We have seen, when describing the Plttl tondo,that Fra Fillppo commenced working at his master-piece In the Choir of the Duomo as early as theyear 1452. During the first three years he appearsto have made satisfactory progress. In spite of otherImportant commissions, such as the Death ofSt. Jerome and the Datini Madonna and Saints,which he executed for Messer Geminiano Inghirami.
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rej-e^,/li/:/x>/t cj^ie ^yvHi/i^CArLfta/Me Syf/nfi/e. „S\V£KSIV\ tXf PRATO 127 It was in 1456 that his work suffered the first seriousinterruption, caused by his romantic adventure withLucrezia Buti and all its attendant circumstances.In the following year we find him in Florenceengaged upon the panel commissioned by Giovannide Medici for the King of Naples and painting thefamous Uffizi Madonna. Lucrezias return to theconvent in 1458 must have robbed the forlorn loverof his peace of mind and left him little dispositionfor work until 1461, when the object of his affectionswas restored to him by virtue of the Papal dis-pensation. Precisely in that year, however, we find that FraFilippo was again obliged to absent himself fromPrato for a period which probably extended overseveral months \ It is therefore not surprising thatthe prodiviri, whose duty it was to superintend theexecution of the frescoes in the Choir, at last becameimpatient, and protested all the more energeticallyagain

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