Filippo di Antonio Filippelli explained

Filippo di Antonio Filippelli (1460–1506) was an Italian Renaissance painter in Tuscany.

He was born in Badia a Passignano, near Tavarnelle Val di Pesa, where he was a pupil of the Florentine painter Bernardo di Stefano Rosselli. His style recalls that of Domenico Ghirlandaio, 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 Barberino Val d'Elsa.
• 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 trompe l'oeil altarpiece dated 1492 in church of Sant'Andrea a Papaiano, Poggibonsi.
• The Ascension of Christ and The Annunciation, 1502, in the church of Santa Maria a Marcialla near Barberino Val d'Elsa.
• 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 Montespertoli

Bibliography

• Book: AA.VV.. Badia a Passignano . 1988 . edizioni Italcards, Bologna. AA.VV., Badia a Passignano.
• Book: Anna Padoa Rizzo. Iconografia di San Giovanni Gualberto . 2002 . Edizioni Vallombrosa . Pacini Editore, Ospedaletto. 88-7781-418-7.
• 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.