1460
unspecified
From the collection of Cleveland Museum of Art
Virgin and Child with Angels is a 1460 unspecified by Filippo Lippi, a Renaissance work, held at Cleveland Museum of Art.
You see a woman in a dark robe holding a baby, surrounded by small angels. The woman’s face is calm, and the baby reaches toward her. This painting was likely made by someone copying Fra Filippo Lippi’s work. The original was lost, but this version gives us a hint of what it looked like. It was part of a larger altarpiece for the Medici family in Florence. To see more like this, look up Fra Filippo Lippi (Italian, c. 1406–1469).
This painting, produced by one of Fra Filippo Lippi’s many imitators in the city of Florence, is very close to the composition of the now lost central panel of the triptych commissioned by the Medici family in 1457. It was purchased by Mrs. L. E. Holden before the museum’s acquisition of the two flanking panels of Saint Anthony Abbot and Saint Michael. It has been suggested that this painting is a copy of the original lost central panel of Fra Filippo’s triptych of 1457.
Read the full account in the museum source.
Filippo Lippi (c. 1406 – 8 October 1469), also known as Lippo Lippi, was an Italian Renaissance painter of the Quattrocento (fifteenth century) and a Carmelite priest. He was an early Renaissance master of a painting…
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