Italian artist, whose agitated style set the stage for 16th-century Mannerism; son of the famous Renaissance painter Fra Filippo Lippi. His early work is close to that of the painter Sandro Botticelli, in whose Florentine workshop he studied, sharing the grace and fluency of both his master's and his father's style. Filippino's mature works, however, starting with The Vision of Saint Bernard (1486?, Badia, Florence, Italy), are increasingly strained and tense, with darker colors, harsher lighting effects, and more jagged lines.
His early frescoes are found beside those of Masaccio and Masolino in the Brancacci Chapel, Carmine church, Florence. Filippino's later work culminated in his frescoes for the Strozzi Chapel (1497?-1502, Santa Maria Novella, Florence). Illustrating the lives of Saint John and Saint Phillip, these frescoes depict an ancient world heavy with archaeological detail and overlaid with tension, while the chosen subject matter dwells upon the dramatic, bizarre, and horrifying episodes in the saints' lives.
In his last years he worked in Rome, where he painted many panel pictures and the frescoes of the Caraffa chapel in S. Maria sopra Minerva.
His expressively distorted art foreshadowed the later Italian Mannerist school.

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