Filippino Lippi's Carafa Chapel: Renaissance Art in Rome (Sixteenth-century Essays & Studies, 5)

Filippino Lippi was among the most gifted and accomplished Florentine painters and draftsmen of the second half of the fifteenth century. He was born in 1457, the product of a famous and illicit relationship between the painter Fra Filippo Lippi and the young nun Lucrezia Buti. Trained first by his father, he entered the workshop of Sandro Botticelli in 1472, three years after his father's death. He went out on his own a few years later, having developed a manner that was deeply imbued with the influence of his two great masters.