The Barbadori Altarpiece, commissioned in 1437, was originally in Santo Spirito and is today in the Louvre. At the Uffizi since 1819.
Orphaned at a young age, Lippi was raised by an aunt and later entered a life of the cloth with the Carmelite friars of Florence. Though, as the biographer Giorgio Vasari (1511 – 1574) wrote, Lippi...Read more