. A history of / with a preface by Frank Brangwyn. e, and typical, of the friars beauty ofcolouring and tenderness, and displays his gift of expressingthe winsome sweetness for which his Madonnas are famous—the whole set in a glowing colour-harmony, and treatedwith wondrous finesse. This design of the ArchangelGabriel announcing to the Virgin Mary that she has beenchosen to be the Mother of the Christ, became a favouritesubject of the painters of the Renaissance. Fra FilippoLippi, or Lippo Lippi as he is called for short, revealedsuch a beautiful sense of colour, that one regrets h
. A history of / with a preface by Frank Brangwyn. e, and typical, of the friars beauty ofcolouring and tenderness, and displays his gift of expressingthe winsome sweetness for which his Madonnas are famous—the whole set in a glowing colour-harmony, and treatedwith wondrous finesse. This design of the ArchangelGabriel announcing to the Virgin Mary that she has beenchosen to be the Mother of the Christ, became a favouritesubject of the painters of the Renaissance. Fra FilippoLippi, or Lippo Lippi as he is called for short, revealedsuch a beautiful sense of colour, that one regrets his earlytraining for the Church. He was at heart a romantic VI FRA FILIPPO LIPPI 1406 ? - 1469 TUSCAN SCHOOL THE ANNUNCIATION (National Gallery) The Archangel Gabriel is seen in the act of announcing to the Virginthat she shall be the Mother of the Christ. A lunette-shaped picture painted for Cosimo de Medici and markedwith his crest, three feathers tied together in a ring. Painted in tempera on wood. 2 ft. 2 in. h. x 4 ft. 11^ in. w. (o66i x1-51).. OF PAINTING His decorations in the choir of the cathedral (Duomo) at WHEREINPrato, wherein he painted the Legends of John the Baptist and WE ARESaint Stephen, reveal his grasp of portraiture, his gift of INTRO-character, and harmonious skill in grouping. In the danceof Salome before Herod, all his poetic sense is displayed. _Here are the movement of the dance, dramatic force, and ljovINCbeauty of form. Here Lippo Lippi discovered the oneness eyEof the arts of colour and music. Filippo Lippis place in the development of the art ofpainting is difficult to set down clearly unless as a parallelgrowth of Fra Angelicos artistry and significance—whatmay be called the Francis of Assisi mood—side by side withthe tragic intensity of the growth of Masaccios art. He owedhis chief inspiration to Fra Angelico and the cloister that bredthe soul of Fra Angelico; but his art, whilst it displays afuller development of the craft of paint
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