\paperw4395 \margr0\margl0 \plain \fs20 \f1 Italian painter.\par
LippiÆs early works show the influence of Botticelli. Around 1485, Filippino finished the frescoes in the Branca
cci Chapel in the Carmine û begun in the twenties by Masolino and Masaccio û in which he displayed considerable talent as a portraitist. The \i Annunciation\i0 in the Museo di San Gimignano marks the start of a second phase of his work that was characte
rized by a softer, more sentimental vein, combined with a liveliness of description; while the colors that he chose became warm and deep under the influence of Flemish art. In the final stage of his career, gloomy elements of pietism made their way into
the artistÆs work, reflecting the religious and political crisis that overtook Florence at the end of the fifteenth century. Yet this was, in fact, the most original period in FilippinoÆs career. In the frescoes of \i Scenes from the Life of Saint John t
he Evangelist and Saint Philip\i0 , painted in the Strozzi Chapel of Santa Maria Novella between the end of the fifteenth and the beginning of the sixteenth century, he proved himself to be a forerunner of the troubled sensibility of the early Mannerists
