Nothing is known of Lippi's artistic origins and early style. The first information that can be offered falls into the 1430s. In 1432 Lippi probably painted a fresco in the cloister of Santa Maria del Carmine, the so-called Rules of the Carmelite Order, and in the same year he apparently left the convent permanently. A small cutdown painting of a Madonna and Child with Saints (in Empoli) has good claim to predate the Rules of the Carmelite Order and to be Lippi's. The picture is notably Masaccesque; recalling to a certain extent the central section of the Pisa Altarpiece, upon which Lippi may even have worked.

Lippi was in Padua in 1434 and perhaps earlier, where he was recorded together with Francesco Squarcione, the local painter and powerful personality. Back in Florence, he signed and dated the Tarquinia Madonna in 1437 and obtained an important commission for an altarpiece, the Madonna Enthroned with Saints for the Barbadori family chapel in Santo Spirito, which he apparently finished during the following year.

Preview	Picture Data	Info
	Madonna and Child Enthroned with Saints c. 1430 Panel, 44 x 34 cm Museo della Collegiata, Empoli
	Madonna and Child Enthroned with Saints (detail) c. 1430 Panel Museo della Collegiata, Empoli
	Madonna and Child Enthroned with Saints (detail) c. 1430 Panel Museo della Collegiata, Empoli
	Madonna of Humility (Trivulzio Madonna) c. 1430 Panel Castello Sforzesco, Milan
	Confirmation of the Carmelite Rule c. 1432 Fresco Museo di Santa Maria del Carmine, Florence
	Confirmation of the Carmelite Rule (detail) c. 1432 Fresco Museo di Santa Maria del Carmine, Florence
	Confirmation of the Carmelite Rule (detail) c. 1432 Fresco Museo di Santa Maria del Carmine, Florence
	Confirmation of the Carmelite Rule (detail) c. 1432 Fresco Museo di Santa Maria del Carmine, Florence
	The Penitent St Jerome with a Young Monk 1435-36 Tempera on wood, 47 x 29 cm Lindenau-Museum, Altenburg
	Pietà 1435-39 Tempera on panel, 58 x 32 cm Museo Poldi Pezzoli, Milan
	Pietà 1435-39 Tempera on panel, 58 x 32 cm Museo Poldi Pezzoli, Milan
	Madonna with Child (Tarquinia Madonna) 1437 Tempera on panel, 151 x 66 cm Galleria Nazionale d'Arte Antica, Rome
	Madonna and Child Enthroned with Two Angels c. 1437 Tempera and gold on wood transferred from wood; arched top: 123 x 63 cm Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York
	Madonna and Child Enthroned with Two Angels c. 1437 Tempera and gold on wood transferred from wood; arched top: 123 x 63 cm Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York
	Madonna and Child Enthroned with Two Angels (detail) c. 1437 Tempera and gold on wood transferred from wood Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York
	The Doctors of the Church c. 1437 Panel, 129 x 65 cm (each) Accademina Albertina, Turin
	Sts Augustine and Ambrose c. 1437 Tempera and gold on wood, 129 x 65 cm Accademia Albertina di Belle Arti, Turin
	Sts Gregory and Jerome c. 1437 Tempera and gold on wood, 129 x 65 cm Accademia Albertina di Belle Arti, Turin
	Triptych c. 1437 Tempera and gold on wood Accademia Albertina di Belle Arti, Turin and Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York
	Sts Augustine and Ambrose (detail) c. 1437 Tempera and gold on wood Accademia Albertina di Belle Arti, Turin
	Sts Gregory and Jerome (detail) c. 1437 Tempera and gold on wood Accademia Albertina di Belle Arti, Turin
	Madonna and Child with Saints, Angels, and a Donor c. 1437 Panel, 47 x 36 cm Collezione Vittorio Cini, Venice
	Annunciation 1437-39 Tempera on wood, 64 x 23 cm (each panel) Frick Collection, New York
	Annunciation (detail) 1437-39 Tempera on wood Frick Collection, New York
	Man of Sorrows - Panel, 82 x 101 cm Archbishop's Palace, Florence
	Madonna and Child with St Fredianus and St Augustine 1437-38 Panel, 208 x 244 cm Musée du Louvre, Paris
	St Fredianus Diverts the River Serchio c. 1438 Tempera on wood, 40 x 235 cm (three panels together) Galleria degli Uffizi, Florence
	Announcement of the Death of the Virgin c. 1438 Tempera on wood, 40 x 235 cm (three panels together) Galleria degli Uffizi, Florence
	Vision of St Augustine c. 1438 Tempera on wood, 40 x 235 cm (three panels together) Galleria degli Uffizi, Florence
	The Annunciation 1435-40 Tempera on panel, 100 x 161 cm National Gallery of Art, Washington
	Madonna and Child - Panel, 155 x 71 cm Palazzo Medici-Riccardi, Florence
	Female Figure (Prophetess?) 1430s Pen and ink, heightened with white gouache on blue paper, 251 x 114 mm Harvard University Art Museum, Cambridge
	St Peter - Pen and brown ink with white highlights, 276 x 139 mm Galleria degli Uffizi, Florence