Filippino Lippi: An Abundance of Invention

Offering particular insight into Filippino Lippi’s artistic problem-solving, an innovative look at the Renaissance master.

The first focused study of Filippino Lippi in a generation, and the first in English in over eighty years, this book presents a new understanding of the Renaissance master-artist. Celebrated as “ingenious” by Vasari in 1550, Filippino was highly praised and influential, then fell out of favor and was forgotten for centuries. He was rediscovered by the poet Swinburne, w...