This exhibition celebrates the restoration of a painting by Filippino Lippi (1457–1504), one of the great artists of 15th-century Florence. Among his principal patrons was the wealthy banker Filippo Strozzi (1428–1491), who commissioned a Madonna and Child for his villa at Santuccio, west of the city. This painting was bequeathed to the Met Museum by Jules Bache in 1949. In preparation for an exhibition on the artist that will be held in Rome next year, the picture was taken for conservation. Cleaning revealed that beneath a thick, discolored varnish, there was a beautifully preserved, richly colored painting.
On view thru April 25, 2011.
On view thru April 25, 2011.
- The Metropolitan Museum of Art
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