LIPPI, Fra Filippo
(b. 1406, Firenze, d. 1469, Spoleto)

Portrait of a Man and a Woman

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Panel, 64 x 42 cm
Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York

The attribution of this easel painting is debated. However, Lippi liked to paint profile portraits (like those of the donors in the Annunciation in the Galleria Nazionale d'Arte Antica, Rome). His portraits are among the earliest in the Italian Renaissance.