filippo lippi

June 18, 2018
Born to an extremely poor family, the Florentine Filippo Lippi was soon left orphan by the death of his father.

October 5, 2017
Saint Placidus is venerated, together with Saint Maurus, on 5 October.

May 19, 2017
On 19 May 1455 Filippo Lippi, a leading Renaissance painter in fifteenth-century Florence, had a really bad day.

September 23, 2016
Giovanni di Cosimo de’ Medici, the younger son of Cosimo Il Vecchio, died on 23 September 1463.

July 8, 2016
Painter Benedetto Bonfigli died on 8 July 1496 in Perugia.

April 5, 2016
A big day for builders: 5 April marks the feast day of Saint Vincent Ferrer, a former Dominican friar and patron saint of those in the field of construction.