Konody separates the romantic legend of Fra Filippo Lippi, handed down from Vasari, from what documents actually show about the Carmelite painter of fifteenth-century Florence. He covers Lippi’s training, his patrons, his affair with the nun Lucrezia Buti at Prato and the character of his Madonnas.
A compact introduction from the Masterpieces in Colour series, suited to gallery-goers and students of the early Renaissance. Download the free EPUB.