Filippino Lippi Beauty, Invention and Intelligence (Niki Studies in Netherlandish-Italian Art History, 13)

"This volume presents fourteen papers originally delivered at the international conference Filippino Lippi: Beauty, Invention and Intelligence, at the Dutch University Institute (NIKI), Florence in 2017. Filippino (1457-1504), although one of the most original and gifted artists of the Florentine renaissance, has attracted less scholarly attention than his father Fra Filippo Lippi or his master Botticelli, and very little has been published on him in English. This book, authored by leading Renaissance art historians, covers diverse aspects of Filippino Lippi's art: his role in Botticelli's workshop; his Lucchese patrons; his responses to Netherlandish painting; portraits; space and temporality; the restoration of the Strozzi Chapel in Santa Maria Novella, Florence; his immediate artistic legacy and nineteenth-century critical reception"-- Provided by publisher Contents Director’s Remarks Michael W. Kwakkelstein Acknowledgements Illustrations Notes on Contributors Introduction Paula Nuttall The Critic as Artist: Swinburne on Filippino Lippi and Botticelli (1868) Jonathan K. Nelson Filippino in Botticelli’s Workshop Michelle O’Malley Visible Rays in Filippino’s London Adoration of the Magi Paul Hills Filippino Lippi’s Lucchese Patrons Geoffrey Nuttall The Virgin at the Well in Filippino’s San Gimignano Annunciation Joost Joustra ‘... Di naturale tanto bene che non pare che gli manchi se non la parola.’ Filippino Lippi pittore di ritratti Patrizia Zambrano From Reiteration to Dialogue: Filippino’s Responses to Netherlandish Painting Paula Nuttall Annunciation and Assumption: Notes on a Particular Constellation in the Carafa Chapel Johannes Grave The Temporary and the Temporal: Suspense in the Strozzi Chapel Alison Wright Gli affreschi di Filippino Lippi nella Cappella Strozzi a Santa Maria Novella a Firenze: il restauro e la tecnica Alessandra Popple e Cristiana Conti Never Being Boring: Filippino Lippi, Michelangelo and the Concept of Chapel Decoration Charles Robertson Reconsidering Lucchese Painting after Filippino Christopher Daly ‘L’un des plus grands maîtres de l’école florentine’: Filippino Lippi and His Workshop in French Collections Matteo Gianeselli Sfortuna di Raffaellino del Garbo Alessandro Cecchi Appendix: A Note on the Identification of the Saints in the Background of the London Adoration of the Magi Photographic Credits Index Filippino Lippi (1457–1504), although one of the most original and gifted artists of the Florentine renaissance, has attracted less scholarly attention than his father Fra Filippo Lippi or his master Botticelli, and very little has been published on him in English. This book, authored by leading Renaissance art historians, covers diverse aspects of Filippino Lippi's art: his role in Botticelli's workshop; his Lucchese patrons; his responses to Netherlandish painting; portraits; space and temporality; the restoration of the Strozzi Chapel in Santa Maria Novella; his immediate artistic legacy; and, finally, his nineteenth-century critical reception. The fourteen chapters in this volume were originally presented at the international conference Filippino Lippi: Beauty, Invention and Intelligence, held at the Dutch University Institute (NIKI) in Florence in 2017. See inside the book. This volume explores diverse aspects of Filippino Lippis art; his role in Botticellis workshop; his Lucchese patrons; his responses to Netherlandish painting; portraits; space and temporality; the restoration of the Strozzi Chapel; his immediate artistic legacy and nineteenth-century critical reception.