Filippo di Antonio Filippelli (1460âÂÂ1506) was an Italian Renaissance painter in Tuscany.
He was born in Badia a Passignano, near Tavarnelle Val di Pesa, where he was a pupil of the Florentine painter Bernardo di Stefano Rosselli. His style recalls that of Domenico Ghirlandaio, who also worked at Passignano.
Filippelli was active primarily as a fresco painter. He painted many frescoes for churches in the countryside surrounding Florence. These include:
- Saint Peter Martyr, Saints Anthony Abbot and Saint Matthew, and the Martyrdom of Saint Sebastian, dated 1484, at the Pieve di Sant'Appiano near Barberino Val d'Elsa.
- Scenes from the Life of Saint Benedict, frescoed between 1483 and 1485 in the cloister of the Abbey of Saint Michael at Badia a Passignano.
- Madonna and Child with Four Saints, a trompe l'oeil altarpiece dated 1492 in church of Sant'Andrea a Papaiano, Poggibonsi.
- The Ascension of Christ and The Annunciation, 1502, in the church of Santa Maria a Marcialla near Barberino Val d'Elsa.
- Madonna and Child with Saints Antony Abbot and Lucy, fragments of a fresco from the Pieve di Santa Maria a Coeli Aula, now at the Museo d'arte sacra di Montespertoli
Bibliography
- Pons, Nicoletta. âÂÂIl pittore Filippo dâÂÂAntonio Filippelli e la sua attivitàfra Valdelsa e Valdipesa (parte 1),â AntichitàViva, XXX, nos. 4-5 (1991): pp. 5âÂÂ13.
- Pons, Nicoletta. âÂÂIl pittore Filippo dâÂÂAntonio Filippelli e la sua attivitàfra Valdelsa e Valdipesa (parte 2),â AntichitàViva, XXXI, no. 1 (1992): pp. 23âÂÂ28.
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