Filippo Lippi (c 1406–1469) was an Italian painter of the Early Renaissance. Born in Florence, he entered the Carmelite monastery of Santa Maria del Carmine as a child and became a friar, while developing as an artist amid the innovations of Masaccio and his circle.

Lippi combined sculptural figures and convincing spatial settings with graceful line, luminous color and an increasingly intimate treatment of sacred subjects. He worked for the Medici and other prominent patrons in Florence and Prato, where his fresco cycle in the cathedral choir is among his major achievements.

His later paintings, especially his representations of the Madonna and Child, helped shape Florentine art in the second half of the fifteenth century. Lippi was the father of the painter Filippino Lippi and an important influence on Sandro Botticelli. He died at Spoleto in 1469.

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