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&#;LIPPI, the name of three celebrated Italian painters.

I. Fra Filippo Lippi (–), commonly called Lippo Lippi, one of the most renowned painters of the Italian quattrocento, was born in Florence—his father, Tommaso, being a butcher.

His mother died in his childhood, and his father survived his wife only two years. His aunt, a poor woman named Monna Lapaccia, then took charge of the boy; and in , when fourteen years of age, he was registered in the community of the Carmelite friars of the Carmine in Florence.

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Here he remained till , and his early faculty for fine arts was probably developed by studying the works of Masaccio in the neighbouring chapel of the Brancacci. Between and he executed some works in the monastery, which were destroyed by a fire in ; they are specified by Vasari, and one of them was particularly marked by its resemblance to Masaccio’s style.

Eventually Fra Filippo quitted his convent, but it appears that he was not relieved