{{Short description|Italian painter (1606–1665)}} {{Infobox person | name = Lorenzo Lippi | image = Portret van schilder en dichter Lorenzo Lippi, RP-P-1909-4842 (cropped).jpg | image_size = | caption = Lorenzo Lippi. Engraving by [[Paolo Caronni]] | birth_name = | occupation = [[Painting|Painter]], [[writer]] | birth_date= {{birth date|1606|5|3|df=y}} | birth_place = [[Florence]], [[Grand Duchy of Tuscany]] | death_date= {{death date and age|1665|4|15|1606|5|3|df=yes}} | death_place = [[Florence]], [[Grand Duchy of Tuscany]] | movement = [[Baroque]] | works = }} '''Lorenzo Lippi''' (3 May 1606 – 15 April 1665) was an Italian [[Painting|painter]] and [[poet]] from [[Florence]].
== Biography == Born in [[Florence]], he studied painting under [[Matteo Rosselli]]. Both [[Baldassare Franceschini]] and [[Francesco Furini]] were also apprenticed with Rosselli, the influence of whose style, and more especially of that of [[Santi di Tito]], is to be traced in Lippi's works, which are marked by taste, delicacy and a strong turn for portrait-like [[naturalism (art)|naturalism]]. His maxim was to poetize as he spoke, and to paint as he saw.{{sfn|Rossetti|1911|p=742}} His biography was recounted by [[Filippo Baldinucci]].
After painting for some time in Florence, and having married at the age of forty the daughter of the rich sculptor named [[Giovanni Francesco Susini]], Lippi went as [[court painter]] to [[Innsbruck]], where he has left many excellent portraits.{{sfn|Rossetti|1911|p=742}}
In Innsbruck, he wrote his humorous poem named ''[[Il Malmantile racquistato]]'', which was published under the anagrammatic pseudonym of Perlone Zipoli. The ''Malmantile racquistato'' is a [[mock-heroic]] romance, mostly compounded out of a variety of popular tales; its principal subject matter is an expedition for the recovery of a fortress and territory whose queen had been expelled by a female usurper. It is full of graceful or racy Florentine idioms, and is counted by Italians as a ''testo di lingua''. Lippi is remembered more for this poem than by his paintings.{{sfn|Rossetti|1911|p=742}} It was published posthumously in 1676.
Lippi was somewhat self-sufficient and arrogant, and, when visiting [[Parma]], would not look at the famous paintings by [[Correggio]] there, saying that they could teach him nothing. He died of [[pleurisy]] in 1664, in Florence. The most esteemed works of Lippi as a painter are a ''Crucifixion'' in the [[Uffizi]] gallery at Florence, and a ''Triumph of David'' which he executed for the salon of [[Angiolo Galli]], introducing into it portraits of the seventeen children of the owner.{{sfn|Rossetti|1911|p=742}} Among his pupils is [[Bartolomeo Bimbi]].
He should not be confused with the Quattrocento-Renaissance, father-son pair of Florentine painters [[Filippo Lippi|Filippo]] and [[Filippino Lippi]], or with Italian poet [[:it:Lorenzo Lippi da Colle|Lorenzo Lippi da Colle]] (1440–85).
==Gallery== <gallery> Lorenzo_Lippi_-_Saint_Agatha_-_Google_Art_Project.jpg|Saint Agatha Lorenzo lippi, s. caterina di prato.jpg|Santa Caterina di Prato Lorenzo Lippi 001.jpg|Allegory of Music Lorenzo Lippi 005.jpg|[[Maria Leopoldine of Austria]]. (1649) Claudia de' Medici wearing the coronet of an Archduchess of Austria by Lorenzo Lippi.jpg|[[Claudia de' Medici]] Lorenzo Lippi 006.jpg|[[Vittoria della Rovere]] Lippi Tobias and Archangel Raphael.jpg|Tobias and Archangel Raphael Lorenzo lippi, incoronazione della vergine.jpg|Ceiling fresco of Cappella Ardinghelli in [[San Gaetano, Florence]] Lorenzo Lippi Madonna.jpg|''Madonna and Child with young St John the Baptist'' </gallery>
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==References== {{reflist}} *{{EB1911|last=Rossetti|first=William Michael|author-link=William Michael Rossetti|wstitle=Lippi|display=Lippi ''s.v.'' Lorenzo Lippi|volume=16|pages=741–742}} *[http://www.libromania.it/capitolo.asp?autore=Lippi%2C+Lorenzo&titolo=Il+Malmantile+racquistato&capitolo=vita+di+lorenzo+lippi Monograph on Lippi]
== External links == {{Commons}} * {{DBI |title= LIPPI, Lorenzo |url=https://www.treccani.it/enciclopedia/lorenzo-lippi_(Dizionario-Biografico)|last1= D'Afflitto|first1= Chiara|last2= Carminati|first2= Clizia|volume= 65}}
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