Fra Filippo Lippi the Carmelite Painter - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook Fra Filippo Lippi the Carmelite Painter write by Megan Holmes. This book was released on 1999-01-01. Fra Filippo Lippi the Carmelite Painter available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Widely admired for his paintings of exquisitely beautiful Madonnas, Florentine Renaissance friar-artist Fra Filippo Lippi (c. 1406-69) gained renown also for his love affair with the nun Lucrezia who bore their son, Filippino Lippi, later a well-known painter himself. In this beautiful and compelling book, Megan Holmes shines new light on Lippi's life and career, from the first paintings he created while a friar in Santa Maria del Carmine to the later works he painted when living outside the monastery for the Medici family, their supporters, and other patrons. Focusing especially on the fascinating conjunction of Lippi's work as a painter and his experiences as a Carmelite friar, Holmes transforms our understanding of Filippo Lippi and of the way art was produced and viewed in fifteenth-century Florence. Unlike most monastic artists, Fra Filippo learned to paint only after joining a religious order. In the first section of the book, the author considers how the doctrines, rules, rituals, and practices of the Carmelites shaped Lippi's art and manner of envisioning sacred subjects. In the second section, Holmes discusses Lippi's life and painting after he left the monastery, demonstrating how his mature work broke new ground but continued to draw upon Carmelite influences. The final section of the book looks closely at three altarpieces Fra Filippo painted for monastic institutions and sets them in a broader social and religious context.
Fra Filippo Lippi
Fra Filippo Lippi - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook Fra Filippo Lippi write by Jeffrey Ruda. This book was released on 1993. Fra Filippo Lippi available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Fra Filippo Lippi (1406 -- 69) was one of the greatest artists of the early Renaissance. He was a leading pioneer of psychological realism, and his richly expressive characters are a compelling revelation of Renaissance attitudes towards human experience. With a long introductory narrative, full catalogue raisonne and digest of documents, Jeffrey Ruda provides a full, scholarly study of Lippi. Superbly produced and illustrated, this important and ambitious book presents an introduction to Lippi that can be enjoyed by scholars and non-specialists alike.
The Miracles of Prato
The Miracles of Prato - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook The Miracles of Prato write by Laurie Albanese. This book was released on 2009-10-06. The Miracles of Prato available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. “Like Fra Filippo’s paintings, this love story, set in one of the most intriguing historical periods, is suffused with clear, warm color and fine attention to detail.” —Debra Dean, author of TheMadonnas of Leningrad A vibrant and enthralling historical novel about art and passion, The Miracles of Prato by Laurie Albanese and Laura Morowitz brings Italy in the era of the Medici to glorious life—as it tells the story of an illicit love affair between the renowned painter Fra Filippo Lippi and his muse, a beautiful convent novitiate. A magnificent blend of fact, historical color, emotion, and invention, The Miracles of Prato is a novel that will delight the many fans of Tracy Chavalier’s Girl with a Pearl Earring and Susan Vreeland’s Girl in Hyacinth Blue.
The Painter of Souls
The Painter of Souls - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook The Painter of Souls write by Philip Kazan. This book was released on 2016-05-03. The Painter of Souls available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Beauty can be a gift—or a wicked temptation.So it is for Filippo Lippi, growing up in Renaissance Florence. He has a talent—not only can he see the beauty in everything, he can capture it, paint it. But while beauty can seduce you and art can transport you—it cannot always feed you or protect you.To survive, Pippo Lippi, orphan, street urchin, budding rogue, must first become Fra Filippo Lippi: Carmelite friar, man of God. His life will take him down two paths at once. He will become a gambler, a forger, a seducer of nuns; and at the same time he will be the greatest painter of his time, the teacher of Botticelli and the confidante of the Medicis.So who is he really—lover, believer, father, teacher, artist? Is anything true except the paintings?
A Gift for the Magus
A Gift for the Magus - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook A Gift for the Magus write by Linda Proud. This book was released on 2012. A Gift for the Magus available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Fra Filippo Lippi is notorious for his contempt of his vows; he was never obedient and never chaste. The nun who modelled for his pictures of the Virgin Mary became the mother of his children. Yet this apparently 'bad' man painted divine pictures; moreover, he was the favourite painter of that very astute patron, Cosimo de' Medici.
