fresco cycle in Prato Cathedral depicting Stories of Saint Stephen and Saint John the Baptist (1452–1464) marks a turning point in Fra Filippo Lippi's...

Italian Renaissance painter Fra Bartolomeo, created c. 1516, commissioned by the church of Santa Maria in Castello in Prato. To the left of the Virgin's...

Child, by Leonardo da Vinci Madonna of the Harpies by Andrea del Sarto Madonna of Humility (Gentile da Fabriano) Madonna of Humility (Fra Angelico) Madonna...

Margherita in Prato. According to the art historian, Giorgio Vasari (1511–1574), while a novice or boarder there, she met the painter Fra Filippo Lippi...

province of Pistoia: Pescia Pistoia In the province of Prato: Carmignano Poggio a Caiano Prato In the province of Siena: Colle di Val d'Elsa Pienza Montepulciano...

received further training under Fra Bartolomeo. His works painted between 1504 and 1508 show a marked influence from Fra Bartolomeo and Raphael, with whom...

this, Trotti claimed that he had no true friends. The chronicler Andrea Prato, who harshly reproaches him for having preferred Galeazzo Sanseverino to...

Stephen and St. John the Baptist in the Great Chapel (Cappella Maggiore) of Prato Cathedral 1453: Piero della Francesca begins work on the frescos of The...

for the fiasco. A mob assaulted the convent of San Marco. Fra Girolamo, Fra Domenico, and Fra Silvestro Maruffi were arrested and imprisoned. Under torture...

much of this period Lippi was based in Prato, a few miles west of Florence, frescoing the apse of what is now Prato Cathedral. Botticelli probably left Lippi's...