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Italian painter (–)

Not to be confused with Filippo Lippi.

Filippino Lippi (probably – 18 April ) was an Italian Renaissance painter mostly working in Florence, Italy during the later years of the Early Renaissance and first few years of the High Renaissance.

He also worked in Rome for a period from , and later in the Milan area and Bologna.

He worked in oils, tempera and fresco, mostly painting religious subjects, with a few portraits and secular allegories or scenes from classical mythology.

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Biography

Filippino Lippi was born, probably in , at Prato, Tuscany,^[1] the illegitimate son to Lucrezia Buti and the painter Fra Filippo Lippi; both had broken clerical vows, and though after Filippino's birth they received a papal dispensation to marry (arranged by Lorenzo di Medici), Vasari says that they never did.

His sister Alessandra was born in Filippino first trained under his father in his workshop.

They moved to Spoleto, where Filippino