# Lorenzo Lippi > Mediated Wiki article. Canonical URL: https://mediated.wiki/source/Lorenzo_Lippi > Markdown URL: https://mediated.wiki/source/Lorenzo_Lippi.md > Source: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lorenzo_Lippi > Source revision: 1352473092 > License: Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 International (https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/4.0/) Italian painter (1606–1665) Lorenzo Lippi Lorenzo Lippi. Engraving by Paolo Caronni Born (1606-05-03)3 May 1606 Florence, Grand Duchy of Tuscany Died 15 April 1665(1665-04-15) (aged 58) Florence, Grand Duchy of Tuscany Occupations Painter, writer Movement Baroque **Lorenzo Lippi** (3 May 1606 – 15 April 1665) was an Italian [painter](/source/Painting) and [poet](/source/Poet) from [Florence](/source/Florence). ## Biography Born in [Florence](/source/Florence), he studied painting under [Matteo Rosselli](/source/Matteo_Rosselli). Both [Baldassare Franceschini](/source/Baldassare_Franceschini) and [Francesco Furini](/source/Francesco_Furini) were also apprenticed with Rosselli, the influence of whose style, and more especially of that of [Santi di Tito](/source/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](/source/Naturalism_(art)). His maxim was to poetize as he spoke, and to paint as he saw.[1] His biography was recounted by [Filippo Baldinucci](/source/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](/source/Giovanni_Francesco_Susini), Lippi went as [court painter](/source/Court_painter) to [Innsbruck](/source/Innsbruck), where he has left many excellent portraits.[1] In Innsbruck, he wrote his humorous poem named *[Il Malmantile racquistato](/source/Il_Malmantile_racquistato)*, which was published under the anagrammatic pseudonym of Perlone Zipoli. The *Malmantile racquistato* is a [mock-heroic](/source/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.[1] It was published posthumously in 1676. Lippi was somewhat self-sufficient and arrogant, and, when visiting [Parma](/source/Parma), would not look at the famous paintings by [Correggio](/source/Correggio) there, saying that they could teach him nothing. He died of [pleurisy](/source/Pleurisy) in 1664, in Florence. The most esteemed works of Lippi as a painter are a *Crucifixion* in the [Uffizi](/source/Uffizi) gallery at Florence, and a *Triumph of David* which he executed for the salon of [Angiolo Galli](https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Angiolo_Galli&action=edit&redlink=1), introducing into it portraits of the seventeen children of the owner.[1] Among his pupils is [Bartolomeo Bimbi](/source/Bartolomeo_Bimbi). He should not be confused with the Quattrocento-Renaissance, father-son pair of Florentine painters [Filippo](/source/Filippo_Lippi) and [Filippino Lippi](/source/Filippino_Lippi), or with Italian poet [Lorenzo Lippi da Colle](https://it.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lorenzo_Lippi_da_Colle) (1440–85). ## Gallery - Saint Agatha - Santa Caterina di Prato - Allegory of Music - [Maria Leopoldine of Austria](/source/Maria_Leopoldine_of_Austria). (1649) - [Claudia de' Medici](/source/Claudia_de'_Medici) - [Vittoria della Rovere](/source/Vittoria_della_Rovere) - Tobias and Archangel Raphael - Ceiling fresco of Cappella Ardinghelli in [San Gaetano, Florence](/source/San_Gaetano%2C_Florence) - *Madonna and Child with young St John the Baptist* Wikimedia Commons has media related to [Lorenzo Lippi](https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Category:Lorenzo_Lippi). ## References 1. ^ [***a***](#cite_ref-FOOTNOTERossetti1911742_1-0) [***b***](#cite_ref-FOOTNOTERossetti1911742_1-1) [***c***](#cite_ref-FOOTNOTERossetti1911742_1-2) [***d***](#cite_ref-FOOTNOTERossetti1911742_1-3) [Rossetti 1911](#CITEREFRossetti1911), p. 742. - This article incorporates text from a publication now in the [public domain](/source/Public_domain): [Rossetti, William Michael](/source/William_Michael_Rossetti) (1911). "[Lippi *s.v.* Lorenzo Lippi](https://en.wikisource.org/wiki/1911_Encyclop%C3%A6dia_Britannica/Lippi)". In [Chisholm, Hugh](/source/Hugh_Chisholm) (ed.). *[Encyclopædia Britannica](/source/Encyclop%C3%A6dia_Britannica_Eleventh_Edition)*. Vol. 16 (11th ed.). Cambridge University Press. pp. 741–742. - [Monograph on Lippi](http://www.libromania.it/capitolo.asp?autore=Lippi%2C+Lorenzo&titolo=Il+Malmantile+racquistato&capitolo=vita+di+lorenzo+lippi) ## External links Wikimedia Commons has media related to [Lorenzo Lippi](https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Category:Lorenzo_Lippi). - D'Afflitto, Chiara; Carminati, Clizia (2005). ["LIPPI, Lorenzo"](https://www.treccani.it/enciclopedia/lorenzo-lippi_(Dizionario-Biografico)). *[Dizionario Biografico degli Italiani](/source/Dizionario_Biografico_degli_Italiani)* (in Italian). Vol. 65: Levis–Lorenzetti. Rome: [Istituto dell'Enciclopedia Italiana](/source/Treccani). [ISBN](/source/ISBN_(identifier)) [978-88-12-00032-6](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Special:BookSources/978-88-12-00032-6). 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