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The Coronation Of Mary (Coronation Marigny)
Fra Filippo Lippi • Painting, 1440-th
, 287×200 cm
Description of the artwork «The Coronation Of Mary (Coronation Marigny)»
"Coronation Of Mary" – this altarpiece, executed by fra Filippo Lippi for the Florentine Church of San Ambrogio. Her customer was a Canon of the Church of Francesco Marini (who died, however, soon after starting work, and not having to Finance it), why a painting is sometimes also called the "coronation of the Marigny".
In the widespread iconographic interpretation of the story of the coronation of the virgin, the artist has made significant advances. From Lippi to crown Mary, not Jesus (as from fra Angelico, Paolo Venezianoor Ridolfo Ghirlandaio), and God the Father. While Mary herself does not sit, surrounded by God the Son and God the Father, that would be more traditional, and stands before God on his knees – such a vision of this scene to Lippi in Renaissance art were not met. Yeah and composition "Coronation of Mary" by Filippo Lippi is more like not rite, and theatrical staging with a variety of characters, who took every allotted position.
Lippi called garrulous narrator: he does not share the main and secondary in his artistic narrative and often overloads the picture with details excess. This can be to blame and "Coronation of Mary": crowding in the foreground people (and Lippi gives a gallery of individual styles of his contemporaries) it is written so detailed and interesting that definitely pulls attention from the sacred scene itself.
The altarpiece for San Ambrogio played an important role in the biography of Lippi, because of its singularity and novelty made a lasting impression on who ruled the city of Florence Cosimo the Elder de ' Medici (1389-1464). Now he will become a patron of the artist, and Lippi will never be a shortage of orders and funds. That's true, life at court finally deprived and without that not too persistent Lippi monastic virtues: he loved wine and women and felt no need to hide it. Lamenting the decline of morals, the Medici times even put fra Filippo Lippi under the castle, so consumed by sexual lust the artist can focus on work. Alas, temperament Lippi was that each time falling in love, he for a while forgets about his art: in that occasion he managed to escape, having weaved a rope of torn sheets. Cosimo de ' Medici took it graciously, noting that corruption is of course bad, but Lippi paintings on a religious theme can many, on the contrary, to turn to the path of truth and virtue.
The Church belonged to the work of Lippe is much stricter, considering that the work of fra Filippo too secular and because they "cease to sound divine music". The Florentine priest and violent the famous Girolamo Savonarola, denounced the Renaissance painting due to its mundane nature and was called a mockery of the art.
"Every artist depicts himself"– pointedly remarked one day, "godfather of the Renaissance" Cosimo de ' Medici. His favorite artist Filippo Lippi's "Crowning of Mary" included a self-portrait, perhaps even double. No doubt that pensive monk clothes Carmelita, propping his chin on one hand, is Lippi himself. Some believe, based on the similarity of that item to the viewer the Bishop in the green robe Lippi also wrote with yourself.
Author: Anna Yesterday
In the widespread iconographic interpretation of the story of the coronation of the virgin, the artist has made significant advances. From Lippi to crown Mary, not Jesus (as from fra Angelico, Paolo Venezianoor Ridolfo Ghirlandaio), and God the Father. While Mary herself does not sit, surrounded by God the Son and God the Father, that would be more traditional, and stands before God on his knees – such a vision of this scene to Lippi in Renaissance art were not met. Yeah and composition "Coronation of Mary" by Filippo Lippi is more like not rite, and theatrical staging with a variety of characters, who took every allotted position.
Lippi called garrulous narrator: he does not share the main and secondary in his artistic narrative and often overloads the picture with details excess. This can be to blame and "Coronation of Mary": crowding in the foreground people (and Lippi gives a gallery of individual styles of his contemporaries) it is written so detailed and interesting that definitely pulls attention from the sacred scene itself.
The altarpiece for San Ambrogio played an important role in the biography of Lippi, because of its singularity and novelty made a lasting impression on who ruled the city of Florence Cosimo the Elder de ' Medici (1389-1464). Now he will become a patron of the artist, and Lippi will never be a shortage of orders and funds. That's true, life at court finally deprived and without that not too persistent Lippi monastic virtues: he loved wine and women and felt no need to hide it. Lamenting the decline of morals, the Medici times even put fra Filippo Lippi under the castle, so consumed by sexual lust the artist can focus on work. Alas, temperament Lippi was that each time falling in love, he for a while forgets about his art: in that occasion he managed to escape, having weaved a rope of torn sheets. Cosimo de ' Medici took it graciously, noting that corruption is of course bad, but Lippi paintings on a religious theme can many, on the contrary, to turn to the path of truth and virtue.
The Church belonged to the work of Lippe is much stricter, considering that the work of fra Filippo too secular and because they "cease to sound divine music". The Florentine priest and violent the famous Girolamo Savonarola, denounced the Renaissance painting due to its mundane nature and was called a mockery of the art.
"Every artist depicts himself"– pointedly remarked one day, "godfather of the Renaissance" Cosimo de ' Medici. His favorite artist Filippo Lippi's "Crowning of Mary" included a self-portrait, perhaps even double. No doubt that pensive monk clothes Carmelita, propping his chin on one hand, is Lippi himself. Some believe, based on the similarity of that item to the viewer the Bishop in the green robe Lippi also wrote with yourself.
Author: Anna Yesterday
