born 0441; 1457, Prato, Republic of Florence
died April 18, 1504, Florence
Italian painter.
After the death of his father, Fra Filippo Lippi , when Filippino was 12, he entered the workshop of Sandro Botticelli and absorbed many aspects of his style. One of his most important assignments was the completion of the frescoes in the Brancacci Chapel in Florence's Santa Maria del Carmine ( 0441; 148587), left unfinished when Masaccio died. His most popular painting is the Vision of St. Bernard altarpiece ( 0441; 1480). His highly decorative frescoes in the Carafa Chapel in Santa Maria sopra Minerva, Rome (148893), and those in the Strozzi Chapel in Santa Maria Novella, Florence (completed 1502), anticipated Tuscan Mannerism of the 16th century.