Filippo Lippi

	"In the chapel of the wardens in San Lorenzo Fra Filippo painted a panel picture again showing the Annunciation." I-217 Annunciation, San Lorenzo
	"For the nuns of the Annalena at Florence he painted a panel picture showing Christ in the manger.." I-217 Virgin and Child with SS Joseph, Jerome, Mary Magdalen and Hilarion
	"The wardens of the parish church [in Prato] commissioned Fra Filippo to paint the chapel of the high altar...The work includes scenes from the life of St Stephen...Fra Filippo showed such zeal and fervour in St Stephen's face as he disputes with the Jews; and contempt and hatred and anger at being vanquished expressed in the faces and attitudes of those Jews." I-219 Disputation of St Stephen, fresco, San Stefano, Prato
	"Fra Filippo was so expert that one cannot look at the grief-stricken attitudes of those burying St Stephen and the sad and afflicted expressions of some of the mourners without being moved." I-219 The burial of St Stephen
	"...in the scene showing the mourning for St stephen he showed his pupil, Fra Diamante" I-220 The burial of St Stephen (detail)
	"On the other side to the chapel he painted scenes from the life of St John the Baptist...in the picture of Herod's banquet we see depicted all the sumptuousness of this occasion.." The Feast of Herod
	"..along with the skill of Herodias, the stupor of the guests and the horrified consternation when the head is offered on a charger." I-220 The Feast of Herod (detail)
	"In the house of Pulidoro Bracciolini there is a picture by Fra Filippo of the Birth of Our Lady;" I-220 The Birth of the Virgin (Pitti tondo)
	"In the possession of Bernardo Vecchietti, a Florentine gentleman, is a beautiful little picture of his showing St Augustine at his studies." I-220 St Augustine, by Botticelli, now in the Uffizi
	"Finer still is the St Jerome in Penitence, a picture of the same size which is in Duke Cosimo's wardrobe." I-220 St Jerome, also by Botticelli
	"Fra Filippo was asked by the commune of Spoleto to decorate the chapel in their principal church, dedicated to Our Lady. Working with Fra Diamante he made excellent progress, but he died before he could finish; they say that in one of those sublime love affairs he was always having the relations of the woman concerned had him poisoned." I-221 Coronation of the Virgin, fresco, Spoleto Cathedral

"Fra Filippo's death deeply grieved his many friends, especially Cosimo de' Medici and Pope Eugene. When he was alive, the Pope wanted to give him a dispensation so that he could make Lucrezia, Francesco Buti's daughter [and a Carmelite nun with whom he lived and who bore him a son, Filippino], his legitimate wife; but as he wanted to stay free and give full rein to his desires Fra Filippo refused the offer."