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LIPPI AND DA FIESOLE.
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and is a celebrated production. The writer does
not know of any picture by Fra Filippo now in
England. He left a son, Flippo Lippi, called
Filippino (to distinguish him from his father), who
became in after years an excellent painter, and
whose frescoes in the Chapel of the Brancacci,
which emulated those of Masaccio, have been al-
ready mentioned.
Contemporary with Fra Filippo, or rather earlier
in point of date, lived the other painter-monk, pre-
senting in his life and character the strongest pos-
sible contrast to the former. He was, as Vasari
tells us, one who might have lived a very agreeable
life in the world, had he not, impelled by a sincere
and fervent spirit of devotion, retired from it at the
age of twenty to bury himself within the walls of a
cloister; a man, with whom the practice of a beau-
tiful art was thenceforth a hymn of praise, and
every creation of his pencil an act of piety and
charity, and who, in seeking only the glory of God,
earned an immortal glory among men. This was
Fra Giovanni Angelico da Fiesole, whose name,
before he entered the convent, was Guido Petri de
Mugello.* He has since obtained, from the holi-
ness of his life, the title of II Beato, “ the Blessed,’"
by which he is often mentioned in Italian histories
of art. He was born in 1387, at Fiesole, a beau-
* Notes to tlie last Florence edition of Vasari, p. 303.
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and is a celebrated production. The writer does
not know of any picture by Fra Filippo now in
England. He left a son, Flippo Lippi, called
Filippino (to distinguish him from his father), who
became in after years an excellent painter, and
whose frescoes in the Chapel of the Brancacci,
which emulated those of Masaccio, have been al-
ready mentioned.
Contemporary with Fra Filippo, or rather earlier
in point of date, lived the other painter-monk, pre-
senting in his life and character the strongest pos-
sible contrast to the former. He was, as Vasari
tells us, one who might have lived a very agreeable
life in the world, had he not, impelled by a sincere
and fervent spirit of devotion, retired from it at the
age of twenty to bury himself within the walls of a
cloister; a man, with whom the practice of a beau-
tiful art was thenceforth a hymn of praise, and
every creation of his pencil an act of piety and
charity, and who, in seeking only the glory of God,
earned an immortal glory among men. This was
Fra Giovanni Angelico da Fiesole, whose name,
before he entered the convent, was Guido Petri de
Mugello.* He has since obtained, from the holi-
ness of his life, the title of II Beato, “ the Blessed,’"
by which he is often mentioned in Italian histories
of art. He was born in 1387, at Fiesole, a beau-
* Notes to tlie last Florence edition of Vasari, p. 303.