Fra Filippo Lippi

This is the abridged edition of Jeffrey Ruda's Fra Filippo Lippi: Life and Work, a narrative monograph on Lippi (c. 1406-69), one of the greatest Italian artists of the early Renaissance period. It contains an absorbing and penetrating examination of Lippi's life and work, as well as placing him in the wide-scale context of Renaissance art. The book includes outstanding color illustrations of all Lippi's major works, as well as a full bibliography with notes, and a checklist of his masterpiec…