Synopsis
Widely admired for his paintings of exquisitely beautiful Madonnas, Florentine Renaissance friar-artist Fra Filippo Lippi (c. 1407-69) 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 book, Megan Holmes shines new light on Lippi's life and career, from the first paintings he created while 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 way art was produced and viewed in fifteenth-century Florence.
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Megan Holmes teaches art history for Florida State University in Florence.
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This scholarly, well-documented book presents a complex view of Renaissance painter Fra Filippo Lippi, who straddled the social order as both a priest in the church and an artist working under Medici patronage. Holmes (art history, Florida State Univ., Florence) focuses on manifold aspects of 15th-century society in Florence. The importance of religious pageants, the frescoes of Massaccio on the walls of Lippi's church, and the ideas of Alberti, Brunelleschi, and Donatello and their significance in Lippi's imagery are all examined. Lippi's relationships to his contemporaries, especially the Dominican Fra Angelico, are also explored, opening a discussion of the differences in the Dominican and Carmelite orders. Though the book is exquisitely produced, with several hundred illustrations in color and black and white, the highly abstract and philosophical level of discourse addresses a scholarly audience, and the book will be of most interest to artists and to serious readers of Florentine social structure.
-Ellen Bates, New York
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