Fra Filippo Lippi and Lucrezia Buti

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According to Vasari's 'Lives of the Artists' in about June 1456 the artist Fra Filippo Lippi settled in Prato, near Florence, to paint frescoes in the choir of the cathedral. Before starting this work he set about painting, in 1458, a picture for the convent chapel of Santa Margherita of Prato, and there saw Lucrezia Buti, the beautiful daughter of a Florentine, Francesco Buti. She was either a novice or a young lady placed under the nuns' guardianship. Lippi asked that she might be permitted to sit for the figure of the Madonna or Saint Margaret. He abducted her and kept her in his own house despite the efforts of the nuns to reclaim her. The couple had a son, who became the equally celebrated painter, Filippino Lippi.

Wigan Arts and Heritage Service

Wigan

Title

Fra Filippo Lippi and Lucrezia Buti

Date

c.1860–1870

Medium

oil on canvas

Measurements

H 86 x W 65 cm

Accession number

B29.8

Acquisition method

unknown acquisition method

Work type

Painting

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