Life of the Virgin (Filippo Lippi)
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Scenes from the Life of the Virgin Mary (Italian - Le Storie della Vergine) is a cycle of frescos by Filippo Lippi in Spoleto Cathedral.
History
The cycle was commissioned in 1466, when Lippi had completed his Stories of Saint Stephen and Saint John the Baptist at Prato Cathedral, and was abruptly terminated by Lippi's death in 1469, caused by poison according to Vasari's Lives of the Artists. His studio assistants completed the work in around three months. Lippi was buried in Spoleto Cathedral despite Lorenzo the Magnificent's request for the remains to be returned to Florence - Spoleto replied that unlike Florence their great new cathedral had no illustrious men buried in it.
Scenes
From left to right the cycle shows:
- Annunciation
- Dormition (centre, out of chronological sequence, probably at the commissioner's request due to the cathedral's dedication to the Assumption[1])
- Nativity
- Coronation of the Virgin (high on the half-domed apse)
Gallery
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Annunciation
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Dormition
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Nativity
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Coronation
References
- ↑ (in Italian) Maria Pia Mannini, Marco Fagioli. Filippo Lippi. Catalogo completo. Firenze 1997. ISBN 88-8030-016-4
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- Paintings by Filippo Lippi
- Church frescos in Italy
- Paintings in Umbria
- Paintings of the Death of the Virgin
- Paintings of the Annunciation
- Paintings of the Coronation of the Virgin
- Nativity of Jesus in art
- 1460s paintings
- Spoleto