The Death of Lucretia

(Prato 1458 - Florence 1505)



Filippino Lippi, painter of the Quattrocento Italian period, was one of Botticelli's disciples.



Son of the painter Filippo Lippi and Lucrezia Tutti, he was ten years old when his father died, and from then on he was educated by Fra Diamante, a disciple and faithful friend of Lippi and a continuer of the works that the master left unfinished.



The poor lad worked in Spoleto and Prato, and already skilled in handling brushes, he entered...

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