Lippi

Collier's New Encyclopedia (1921)

FRA FILIPPO (lēp'pē), commonly known as LIPPO LIPPI, a Florentine painter; born in Florence, in 1412; but, losing his parents while still an infant, he was intrusted to the Carmelite friars of Florence. As a youth he abducted Lucrezia Buti, a ward or novice of the convent of St. Margaret at Prato, and afterward married her. Lippo Lippi, who studied principally Masaccio, painted religious subjects, which he conceived and designed from a human standpoint. His greatest work was done on the choir walls of the cathedral of Prato _ illustrations of the lives of John the Baptist and St. Stephen. He also painted several Madonnas and altar pieces. Died in Spoleto, Italy, Oct. 9, 1469. His son, FILIPPINO LIPPI, was born in Florence in 1460, and educated at Prato. His artistic style has a strong element of originality, but also shows the influence of his father and Botticelli. His most celebrated frescoes are scenes from the lives of St. Peter and St. Paul in the Brancacci chapel at Florence, incidents "Columbia illustrating the character of St. Thomas Aquinas in the Minerva church at Rome, meen Victor and subjects from the legends of St. ess of Wald John and St. Philip in Sta. Maria Novella to provid at Florence. His best easel pictures inthe poor i clude "The Virgin and Saints" (in the festivi the Uffizi at Florence), "The Adoraributed $10 tion of the Magi," "The Vision of St. sement wa Francis." Filippino died in Florence in purpose of April, 1504. cants all o ple may bus LIPPINCOTT, SARA JANE (CLARKE), pseudonym GRACE GREENat cost pric $500,000 in WOOD, an American writer; born in Pomen needed. pey, N. Y., Sept. 23, 1823. She was ty he was well known as an editor and contributhe Roye tor. "Ariadne" is one of her best poems. homas con She published: "Greenwood Leaves" in 1899. (1850); "Poems" (1851); "Records of 1920. Five Years" (1868); and "New Life in New Lands" (1873); "Recollections of TION OF My Childhood"; "Stories and Legends eved that She died April 20, quefied of Ireland": etc. 1904. 720 ury