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    MASTERPIECES
    IN COLOUR
    EDITED BY
    T. LEMAN HARE

    FRA FILIPPO LIPPI

    (1406-1469)




"MASTERPIECES IN COLOUR" SERIES


    ARTIST.                 AUTHOR.

    BELLINI.                GEORGE HAY.
    BOTTICELLI.             HENRY B. BINNS.
    BOUCHER.                C. HALDANE MACFALL.
    BURNE-JONES.            A. LYS BALDRY.
    CARLO DOLCI.            GEORGE HAY.
    CHARDIN.                PAUL G. KONODY.
    CONSTABLE.              C. LEWIS HIND.
    COROT.                  SIDNEY ALLNUTT.
    DA VINCI.               M. W. BROCKWELL.
    DELACROIX.              PAUL G. KONODY.
    DUeRER.                  H. E. A. FURST.
    FRA ANGELICO.           JAMES MASON.
    FRA FILIPPO LIPPI.      PAUL G. KONODY.
    FRAGONARD.              C. HALDANE MACFALL.
    FRANZ HALS.             EDGCUMBE STALEY.
    GAINSBOROUGH.           MAX ROTHSCHILD.
    GREUZE.                 ALYS EYRE MACKLIN.
    HOGARTH.                C. LEWIS HIND.
    HOLBEIN.                S. L. BENSUSAN.
    HOLMAN HUNT.            MARY E. COLERIDGE.
    INGRES.                 A. J. FINBERG.
    LAWRENCE.               S. L. BENSUSAN.
    LE BRUN (VIGEE).        C. HALDANE MACFALL.
    LEIGHTON.               A. LYS BALDRY.
    LUINI.                  JAMES MASON.
    MANTEGNA.               MRS. ARTHUR BELL.
    MEMLINC.                W. H. J. & J. C. WEALE.
    MILLAIS.                A. LYS BALDRY.
    MILLET.                 PERCY M. TURNER.
    MURILLO.                S. L. BENSUSAN.
    PERUGINO.               SELWYN BRINTON.
    RAEBURN.                JAMES L. CAW.
    RAPHAEL.                PAUL G. KONODY.
    REMBRANDT.              JOSEF ISRAELS.
    REYNOLDS.               S. L. BENSUSAN.
    ROMNEY.                 C. LEWIS HIND.
    ROSSETTI.               LUCIEN PISSARRO.
    RUBENS.                 S. L. BENSUSAN.
    SARGENT.                T. MARTIN WOOD.
    TINTORETTO.             S. L. BENSUSAN.
    TITIAN.                 S. L. BENSUSAN.
    TURNER.                 C. LEWIS HIND.
    VAN DYCK.               PERCY M. TURNER.
    VELAZQUEZ.              S. L. BENSUSAN.
    WATTEAU.                C. LEWIS HIND.
    WATTS.                  W. LOFTUS HARE.
    WHISTLER.               T. MARTIN WOOD.

    _Others in Preparation._


[Illustration: PLATE I.--THE VIRGIN ADORING THE INFANT SAVIOUR

(In the Accademia, Florence)

In this earliest known picture by Filippo Lippi, the painter is still
entirely under the influence of his youthful training. It is just like
an illuminated miniature on a large scale, and is lacking in unity of
design or pictorial vision. Note the way in which the figure of the
Madonna is detached from the background, without having any real plastic
life; and how awkwardly the monk is placed in the corner. The rocky
landscape, with its steep perspective, is still quite in the spirit of
the early primitives, although certain realistic details, like the
cut-down tree-stump behind the Virgin, and the reflection of the sky