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LIPPI licole florentine ; Dohme, 2i. ; Liibkc, Gesch. d. ital. Mai., i. 358. IJPPI, Fra FILIPPO, born in Florence about 140G, died at Spole- to, Oct. 9,1469. Florentine school ; son of a butcher, Tom- inaso Lip pi, whose death in 1414 left him an orphan. When eight years old he was received into the Commu- nity of the Carmine, Florence, where Masac- cio afterwards painted (1423-28) frescos in the Brancacci Chapel ; and he either had lessons from that master or studied his style. Filippo left the convent in 1432, and led for a time, it is said, a wandering life. Vasari represents him as a man of loose habits, and accuses him of the seduc- tion of Lucretia Buti, a novice in the con- vent of S. Margherita, Prato, who became the mother of Filippino Lippi ; but late re- searches seem to cast some doubt upon this .story. It is certain that ho bore the title of Fratc until his death, that he was poor, with six nieces dependent upon him, and that he was chaplain to the nuns of S. Gio- vannino, Florence, in 1452, and rector of ' S. Quirico, Legnaia, in 1457. Fra Filippo was the greatest colourist and the most com- plete master of the technical difficulties in art of his time. Though inferior in compo- sition to Masaccio, his arrangement of fig- ures is always graceful ; and none before j him expressed attitude and motion of living figures under draperies as he did. Ho was among the first to introduce the element of sensuous beauty into sacred pictures, by taking the prettiest faces around him as models for his madonnas. His sacred sub- jects, too, are often treated in a realistic style that detracts from their dignity, saints and even angels being painted in the Florentine costume of the time, and low, vulgar types selected for the representation of holy per- sonages. His best frescos are the Histories of John the Baptist and of St. Stephen in the choir of the Cathedral at Prato. Those in the apse of the Cathedral of Spoleto were not finished at the time of his death. Fra Diamante was his assistant in these works. Among the best of his many easel pictures are : Coronation of the Virgin, Nativity, Florence Academy ; Madonna, Palazzo Pitti ; Madonna with Angels, St. Augustine, Uffizi ; Nativity, S. Domenico, Prato ; Annuncia- tion, Palazzo Doria, Rome ; Annunciation, Naples Museum ; Madonna in Adoration, M^adonna della Misericordia, Berlin Muse- um ; Crucifixion, Stiiclel Gallery, Frankfort ; Madonna, Annunciation (2), Old Pinako- thek, Munich ; Madonna, Konigsberg Mu- | seum ; Nativity, Madonna with Saints, Louvre ; Annunciation, John Baptist with Saints, Madonna Enthroned, Madonna and Angel, Vision of St. Bernard, National Gal- j lery, London. C. & C., Italy, ii. 319 ; Ch. Blanc, Ecole florentine ; Dohme, 2i. ; Va- sari, ed. Le Mon., iv. 114; Seguier, 84; Burckhardt (Clough), CO; Baldinucci, i. 507 ; Liibke, (resell, d. ital. Mai., i. 301. LIPPINCOTT, WILLIAM H, born in Philadelphia, Pa. ; contemporary. Portrait and genre painter, pupil of Leon Bonnat in Paris. Exhibits in Salon and National Academy. Studio in New York, where he is professor in National Academy schools. Elected A.N.A. in 1885. Work's: Duck's Breakfast (1876); Lolotte, Portrait of Miss Ethel, Little Prince (1878) ; Comer of a Farmyard France (1880) ; Pont Aven Bretagne, Light of the Harem (1881); Loan Collection, Two Good Friends, T. B. Clarke, New York ; At the Gate Waiting (1882) ; Eeuee, Helena (1883) ; Happy Hours (1884). LIPPO DALMASIO (di Dalmasio di Ja- copo Scannabecchi), bom about 1376, died about 1410. Bolognese school ; pupil prob- ably of Vitale de Bologna. Painted figures of a broad instead of slender form, with marked and deep outline and sharp colour, and a tendency to profusion in ornament.