Filippino Lippi

Florentine, 1457 - 1504

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Italian painter (1457–1504)

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Filippino Lippi, The "Chief Framer", Two Angels Carrying Torches, c. 1501, pen and brown ink and brown wash on laid paper, pricked for transfer, Woodner Collection, Patrons' Permanent Fund, 1991.190.1.g

Two Angels Carrying Torches

Filippino Lippi, The "Chief Framer" · c. 1501 · pen and brown ink and brown wash on laid paper, pricked for transfer ·  Accession ID  1991.190.1.g

A man and two winged angels support the limp body of a muscular, nearly nude man, Jesus, who is perched on the end of a tomb in this wide, horizontal painting. The people all have nearly white-colored skin faintly tinged with green. Jesus’s knees and body are angled very slightly to our left, and his head hangs down in that direction with his eyes and lips closed. He has a beard and long blond hair and a delicate gold halo. White cloth wraps around his shoulders and upper arms and another across his hips, and blood trickles from a gash over his right ribs. The man supporting him is bearded and wears a sapphire-blue turban and a raspberry-red robe. He looks at us from over Jesus’s left shoulder, to our right, and he supports Jesus’s torso with both hands. Both angels have blue robes over amethyst-purple garments visible only at the necklines and cuffs, long blond hair, gold halos, and wings shaded with pastel blue, yellow, and pink. They each support one of Jesus’s arms near the elbows. The angel to our left looks up at Jesus and holds one end of the white cloth that wraps around Jesus’s shoulders. The other angel looks down and holds a ring of thorns. The fabric separates Jesus’s body from the man and angel’s touch for all four hands. Jesus’s legs are shown from the mid-thigh up against the dark opening of the rectangular tomb. The area behind the group is dark within a rocky outcropping painted with shades of caramel and ash brown.
Filippino Lippi, Pietà (The Dead Christ Mourned by Nicodemus and Two Angels), c. 1500, oil (and possibly tempera) on panel, Samuel H. Kress Collection, 1952.5.86

Pietà (The Dead Christ Mourned by Nicodemus and Two Angels)

Filippino Lippi · c. 1500 · oil (and possibly tempera) on panel ·  Accession ID  1952.5.86

A winged angel wearing a long billowing robe and holding a torch balances or lands on their left foot, on our right, in this vertical drawing. Created with dark brown ink against cream-white paper, the person is sketchily drawn so some of the details are indistinct. The right foot, on our left, is raised behind the angel, who looks down in that direction. A wing stretches out above, making an arc to our left. The edge of a column and base lines the right edge of the paper. The background behind the angel is slate blue. The drawing with the angel has been cut out near its edges and affixed to a sheet the same blue. Some white clouds billow up around the angel's feet.
Filippino Lippi, The "Chief Framer", An Angel Carrying a Torch, c. 1500/1504, pen and brown ink and gray wash on laid paper, Woodner Collection, Patrons' Permanent Fund, 1991.190.1.f

An Angel Carrying a Torch

Filippino Lippi, The "Chief Framer" · c. 1500/1504 · pen and brown ink and gray wash on laid paper ·  Accession ID  1991.190.1.f

Filippino Lippi, The "Chief Framer", Man with a Stick, c. 1500, metalpoint heightened with white on gray-prepared paper, Woodner Collection, Patrons' Permanent Fund, 1991.190.1.c

Man with a Stick

Filippino Lippi, The "Chief Framer" · c. 1500 · metalpoint heightened with white on gray-prepared paper ·  Accession ID  1991.190.1.c

Filippino Lippi, The "Chief Framer", Standing Nude Youth, c. 1496, metalpoint heightened with white on gray-prepared paper, Woodner Collection, Patrons' Permanent Fund, 1991.190.1.b

Standing Nude Youth

Filippino Lippi, The "Chief Framer" · c. 1496 · metalpoint heightened with white on gray-prepared paper ·  Accession ID  1991.190.1.b

Filippino Lippi, The "Chief Framer", Dancing Putto Holding a Drapery, c. 1493/1497, pen and brown ink on laid paper, Woodner Collection, Patrons' Permanent Fund, 1991.190.1.e

Dancing Putto Holding a Drapery

Filippino Lippi, The "Chief Framer" · c. 1493/1497 · pen and brown ink on laid paper ·  Accession ID  1991.190.1.e

Filippino Lippi, The "Chief Framer", Various Figure Studies, c. 1493/1495, metalpoint heightened with white on ochre-prepared paper with borders by Vasari in brown ink, Woodner Collection, Patrons' Permanent Fund, 1991.190.1.d

Various Figure Studies

Filippino Lippi, The "Chief Framer" · c. 1493/1495 · metalpoint heightened with white on ochre-prepared paper with borders by Vasari in brown ink ·  Accession ID  1991.190.1.d

Filippino Lippi, The "Chief Framer", Standing Woman with Her Hands Clasped in Prayer, c. 1488, metalpoint heightened with white on gray-prepared paper, Woodner Collection, Patrons' Permanent Fund, 1991.190.1.i

Standing Woman with Her Hands Clasped in Prayer

Filippino Lippi, The "Chief Framer" · c. 1488 · metalpoint heightened with white on gray-prepared paper ·  Accession ID  1991.190.1.i

Filippino Lippi, The "Chief Framer", Two Draped Women Standing on Either Side of a Herm, 1488/1493, metalpoint heightened with white on light green-prepared paper, Woodner Collection, Patrons' Permanent Fund, 1991.190.1.j

Two Draped Women Standing on Either Side of a Herm

Filippino Lippi, The "Chief Framer" · 1488/1493 · metalpoint heightened with white on light green-prepared paper ·  Accession ID  1991.190.1.j

This vertical portrait painting shows the head, shoulders, and chest of a pale-skinned young man in front a cream-white, stone window that opens onto blue sky. The man’s body is angled slightly to our left and he looks directly at us with wide-set, pale blue eyes. He has smooth skin, a rounded nose, a wide jawline, and full, light pink lips. He wears a brimless crimson-red cap over brown hair that curls over his ears and down to the nape of his neck. His slate-blue jacket is lined with brown, perhaps fur, around the high neck and down the front. The jacket has puffy sleeves and vertical pleats over the chest. He is positioned in front of the stone opening, the edges of which run parallel to top and sides of the composition. Vivid blue sky fills the opening behind the young man.
Filippino Lippi, Portrait of a Youth, c. 1485, oil and tempera on panel, Andrew W. Mellon Collection, 1937.1.20

Portrait of a Youth

Filippino Lippi · c. 1485 · oil and tempera on panel ·  Accession ID  1937.1.20

Bibliography

1899

  • Berenson, Bernard. "Amico di Sandro." Gazette des Beaux-Arts Ser. 3, 21 (1899): 459-471; Ser. 3, 22 (1899): 21-36.

1904

  • Supino, Igino B. Les deux Lippi. Florence, 1904.

1905

  • Konody, Paul G. Filippino Lippi. London, 1905.

1935

  • Scharf, Alfred. Filippino Lippi. Vienna, 1935. 2nd ed. 1950.

1938

  • Neilson, Katherine B. Filippino Lippi. Cambridge, Massachusetts, 1938.

1957

  • Berti, Luciano, and Umberto Baldini. Filippino Lippi. Florence, 1957. 2nd ed. 1991.

1992

  • Nelson, Jonathan. The Later Works of Filippino Lippi from the Roman Sojourn until his Death. Ph.D. diss., New York University, 1992.

1995

  • Zambrano, Patrizia. "L'eredità di Filippo: qualche indicazione sui prima passi di Filippino Lippi nella bottega paterna." In Natività di Filippo Lippi: restauro saggi e richerche. Ed. Maria Pia Mannini. Pisa and Prato, 1995.

1997

  • The Drawings of Filippino Lippi and His Circle. Carmen Bambach and George Goldner with Alessandro Cecchi et al. Exh. cat. Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York, 1997.

2003

  • Boskovits, Miklós, and David Alan Brown, et al. Italian Paintings of the Fifteenth Century. The Systematic Catalogue of the National Gallery of Art. Washington, D.C., 2003: 373.