Fra Filippo Lippi

American  

[frah fi-lip-oh lip-ee, frah fee-leep-paw leep-pee] / frɑ fɪˈlɪp oʊ ˈlɪp i, frɑ fiˈlip pɔ ˈlip pi /

noun

1. Lippi, Fra Filippo.

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Example Sentences

He was a favorite of Lorenzo de’ Medici, and his paintings have a superficial resemblance both to those of his teacher, Botticelli, and those of his father, Fra Filippo Lippi.

From The Wall Street Journal

He held his breath, staring at the whorls of the child’s perfect ear, luminescent, as if painted by Fra Filippo Lippi.

From The New Yorker

The standard format in painting early on was the profile, which, however beautifully realized in works by Masaccio, Fra Filippo Lippi, Pisanello and others, appears static, like an image on a shop sign.

From New York Times

Once again, Leonardo da Vinci is named as the inventor of chiaroscuro, yet he was preceded by Fra Filippo Lippi.

From Project Gutenberg

Another painter favoured by the Medici was Fra Filippo Lippi, whose life and art-work were alike the deviation of a pleasure-loving temperament from its natural sphere into the service of the Church.

From Project Gutenberg