Philippo Lippi

1406-1469

Florentinisch Maler; Kaplan? Giorgio Vasari, the first art historian of the Renaissance, writes that

Lippi was inspired to become a painter by watching Masaccio at work in the Carmine church.

he met Lucrezia Buti, a beautiful novice of the Order and the daughter of a Florentine named

Francesco Buti. Lippi asked that she might be permitted to sit for the figure of the Madonna (or

perhaps S. Margherita). Lippi engaged in sexual relations with her, abducted her to his own

house, and kept her there despite the nuns' efforts to reclaim her. This relationship resulted in