Filippo Lippi

stupibo pe nu ghi a uerra”; “being stupid so you don't need to go to war.” So likewise to war he understood the struggle just being in the police station. After the war, Antonio went back to the theater. He started a band with Eduardo and Peppino De Filippo and Cesare Bixio. He wrote poems, composed songs and dedicated so much time in the show business. Continuing on this road he accomplished a certain fame, and from here on he will grow to become very very

tradition, at least not one worth imitating, in the face of so much change. Futurism Began The new movement in modern art, Futurism was first announced on Feb. 20, 1909, when the Paris newspaper Le Figaro published a manifesto by the Italian poet Filippo Tommaso Marinetti. The name Futurism reflected his emphasis on discarding what he conceived to be the static and irrelevant art of the past and celebrating change, originality, and innovation in culture and society. Marinetti's manifesto glorified

Christian art throughout the Italian Renaissance period reveals an interest in the individual’s experience of the world. The two artists, Giotto di Bondone and Filippo Lippi reflect this interest through their artworks. Not much is known about Giotto’s early life. His date of Birth remains unknown however it is believed to be between 1266 and 1276. According to legend he was the son of a poor Shepard in a small town near Florence (Italy). Cimabue a famous Italian painter of the time discovered

literature. Artists and sculptors used their talents to express their inner most feelings and emotions. They influenced and established many of the methods that we still use to this day. Filippo Lippi, an Italian painter, was no different. He focused most of his art on his religious beliefs such the Seven Saints. Filippo was born in Florence, Italy in 1406 to a middle class family, whom were butchers. His parents died when the boy was at a young age, resulting him into becoming an orphan. Fortunately

their works, engaging the people to the point that they could identify and relate to religious scenes of the Virgin Mary and Jesus Christ. Filippo Lippi, a skilled Italian Renaissance painter, combined the religious world, the Classical era, and the real world in his painting, Annunciation, painted in Florence from 1443-1450 with tempera on panel. Filippo Lippi made the Annunciation scene with the Virgin Mary, Jesus Christ, and angels accessible to everyday people, as they could enter the spiritual

his painting called "Nativity", as the painting is sharply defined and with cold colours. Botticelli's style of painting had influenced many people and many artists who then became famous, also changing the way people look at art. For example, Lippi, Filippino (1457-1504) was an Italian artist, the son

Florence, (now Italy) | Died | May 17, 1510 (aged 64–65) Florence, Republic of Florence, (now Italy) | Nationality | Italian | Field | Painting | Training | Filippo Lippi Andrea del Verrocchio | Movement | Italian Renaissance | Works | Primavera The Birth of Venus The Adoration of the Magi Other Works | Influenced by | Fra Filippo Lippi | Alessandro di Mariano di Vanni Filipepi, better known as Sandro Botticelli (Italian: [ˈsandro bottiˈtʃɛlli]; c. 1445[1] – May 17, 1510), was an Italian painter

relative comfort and at the age of fourteen he expressed a passion for painting to his father who helped him gain an apprenticeship with Fra Filippo Lippi. Lippi taught Botticelli many important aspects of art, as outline in one article; “[Lippi was] known especially for his coloring and draftsmanship, he was to exert a lifelong influence on Botticelli’s work. Lippi conveyed enormous human interest in his religious paintings, a characteristic Botticelli emulated” (Rollyson 1). This apprenticeship greatly

Sandro Botticelli was born in Florence, Italy soemthime between 1444 and 1446 and his name was Alessandro di Mariano Filipepi. Botticelli was a nickname that was given to him by a his older brother. Sandro went to the master painter Fra Filippo Lippi when he was sixteen years old where he learned to portray feminine beauty. Sandro is also thought to have worked with Antonio Poppaiulol who was a painter and a sculptor where he learned to portray the body in motion. Sandro set up his own studio around

painting that was commissioned for the private altar at the Medici Chapel in their palace. The scene depicts a contemplative Mary kneeling over baby Christ and praying, as well as a Camaldolese monk, John the Baptist, and God emerging from the Heavens. Lippi created this painting with an overpowering mystical atmosphere through the manipulation of lights and darks. The figures are set in a dark forest and emerge from different degrees of light. The monk shown in intense prayer is the darkest figure, then