Filippino LippiItalian, 1457–1504Buste d'ange
Can I see it?
Unknown
Where is “Buste d'ange” now? Collection: Musée des Beaux-Arts de Strasbourg, Strasbourg. Unknown.
Strasbourg, France
The owner is known; whether it is on view today is not.
- In this state since
- Source
- The museum
Details
- Accession number
- MBA 365 ; 44.R.25 (N° récolement)
What it shows
In the catalog
Sources
- Musée des Beaux-Arts de Strasbourg
- Image: Musée des Beaux-Arts de Strasbourg — © Service photographique des Musées de Strasbourg, © PLISSON, © BACHER; Ministère de la Culture (France), base Joconde
In the life of Filippino Lippi
The whole life27 August 1488
Cardinal Carafa's commission takes him to Rome
On 27 August 1488, on Lorenzo de' Medici's recommendation, Cardinal Oliviero Carafa commissioned Filippino to fresco his family chapel in the Roman church of Santa Maria sopra Minerva. The artist, then in his early thirties, set off for Rome.
1489
Possibly visits Venice
In 1489 Filippino may have visited Venice.
1491
Competes for the façade of Florence Cathedral
Back from Rome in 1491, Filippino took part in the competition for the façade of Florence Cathedral and resumed the frescoes of the Strozzi Chapel. Other accounts have him returning to Florence some time between 1491 and 1494.
