His father, at age 50, fled from Prato, a small city near Florence, with one of the nuns from the convent in which he was painting. Some say he abducted her. Her name was Lucrezia Buti and Fra Lippi was later given permission to marry her by the Pope. The off spring of this relationship was Filippino Lippi.

After Fra Lippi's death, in 1469, Filippino entered the workshop of Botticelli. When he was 30 he finished his apprenticeship and set out on his own. He was employed, along with Botticelli, Perugino, and Ghirlandajo, to fresco Lorenzo de' Medici's villa at Spedaletto.

By the time he was forty, he was well enough known that he was entrusted with the completion of the frescoes in the Brancacci Chapel of the Carmelite Monastary, where his father had learned to paint. These frescos had been left unfinished after Masaccio died in 1428.

The self-portrait (above) is a detached fresco on flat tile, 50×31 cm, from the Uffizi, Florence, Italy. Another self-portrait can be found in in details of a frescos shown below.

Adoration of the Child
about 1463
oil on wood, 96×71 cm
Uffizi, Florence, Italy

Madonna and Child
with St Anthony
of Padua and a Friar
before 1480
tempera on wood, 57×42 cm
Museum of Fine Arts
Budapest, Hungry

Tobias and the Angel
about 1480
oil and tempera on wood
33×24 cm
National Gallery
Washington, DC, US

Gabriel

Virgin

Fresco; 230×598 cm

St. Peter
[fresco detail left]

Centeral Group
[fresco detail center]

Simon Magus
[fresco detail right]

Self
[fresco detail far right]

The Coronation of the Virgin
about 1480
tempera on panel, 90×222 cm
National Gallery of Art
Washington, DC, US

St. Jerome
oil on wood; 136×71 cm
1485
Uffizi, Florence, Italy

A Youth
about 1485
tempera on wood, 51×36 cm
National Gallery
Washington, DC, US

St Lucy
wood
Museo dell'Opera del Duomo
Prato, Italy

Wounded Centaur
about 1500

Adam
1502
Fresco
Strozzi Chapel, Santa Maria Novella
Florence, Italy