Filippo di Antonio Filippelli (1460–1506) was an

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Renaissance painter in Tuscany. He was born in

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, near

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, where he was a pupil of the Florentine painter

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. His style recalls that of

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, who also worked at Passignano. Filippelli was active primarily as a fresco painter. He painted many frescoes for churches in the countryside surrounding Florence. These include: *''Saint Peter Martyr, Saints Anthony Abbot and Saint Matthew, and the Martyrdom of Saint Sebastian'', dated 1484, at the Pieve di Sant'Appiano near

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. *''Scenes from the Life of Saint Benedict'', frescoed between 1483 and 1485 in the cloister of the Abbey of Saint Michael at Badia a Passignano. *''Madonna and Child with Four Saints'', a

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altarpiece dated 1492 in church of Sant'Andrea a Papaiano,

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. *''The Ascension of Christ'' and ''The Annunciation'', 1502, in the church of Santa Maria a Marcialla near

. *''Madonna and Child with Saints Antony Abbot and Lucy'', fragments of a fresco from the Pieve di Santa Maria a Coeli Aula, now at the Museo d'arte sacra di

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Bibliography

* * *Pons, Nicoletta. “Il pittore Filippo d’Antonio Filippelli e la sua attività fra Valdelsa e Valdipesa (parte 1),” ''Antichità Viva'', XXX, nos. 4-5 (1991): pp. 5–13. *Pons, Nicoletta. “Il pittore Filippo d’Antonio Filippelli e la sua attività fra Valdelsa e Valdipesa (parte 2),” ''Antichità Viva'', XXXI, no. 1 (1992): pp. 23–28.

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{{DEFAULTSORT:Fillipelli 1460 births 1506 deaths Painters from Tuscany 15th-century Italian painters 16th-century Italian painters Italian Renaissance painters People from Tavarnelle Val di Pesa