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Beauty can be a gift... r a wicked temptation.... So it is for Filippo Lippi, growing up in Renaissance Florence. He has a talent - not only can he see the beauty in everything but he can capture it, paint it. But while beauty can seduce you and art can transport you - it cannot always feed you or protect you.
To survive, Filippo di Tommaso Lippi, street urchin, forger, drinker, seducer of nuns, must become Fra Fra Filippo Lippi - Carmelite friar, man of God.
Yet at the same time he is Lippo Lippi, creator of some the most radiantly beautiful paintings, Botticelli's teacher, Medici's confidante.
So who is he really - lover, believer, father, teacher, artist? Which man? Which life? Is anything true except the paintings?An extraordinary journey of passion, art and intrigue, The Painter of Souls takes us to a time and place in Italy's history where desire reigns, and salvation is found in the strangest of places.
- Published on: 2015-07-16
- Released on: 2015-07-16
- Format: Unabridged
- Original language: English
- Running time: 542 minutes
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4 of 4 people found the following review helpful.
Mesmerizing, arresting and captivating like an art!!
By ADITI SAHA
“Art washes away from the soul the dust of everyday life.”
----Pablo Picasso
Pip Vaughan-Hughes, an English writer, writing under the name of Philip Kazan, pens a mystifying historical fiction, The Painter of Souls that is based on the life and times of the famous painter, Fra Filippo Lippi, during the 15th century Renaissance Florence. Although there is not much known to this great historic painter's life, so the author immerses into Filippo's paintings to give a fictional sketch of his early as well as later life in Florence.
Synopsis:
Beauty can be a gift...or a wicked temptation...
So it is for Filippo Lippi, growing up in Renaissance Florence. He has a talent - not only can he see the beauty in everything, he can capture it, paint it. But while beauty can seduce you, and art can transport you - it cannot always feed you or protect you.
To survive, Filippo di Tommaso Lippi, street urchin, forger, drinker, seducer of nuns must become Fra Fra Filippo Lippi - Carmelite friar, man of God. Yet at the same time he is Lippo Lippi, creator of some the most radiantly beautiful paintings, Botticelli's teacher, Medici's confidante.
So who is he really - lover, believer, father, teacher, artist? Which man? Which life? Is anything true except the paintings?
An extraordinary journey of passion, art and intrigue, The Painter of Souls takes us to a time and place in Italy's history where desire reigns and salvation is found in the strangest of places.
Fra Filippo Lippi, born in the 15th century Florence, belongs to the second generation artists of Renaissance period. According to the book, Filippo, a.k.a, Pippo, began his life as a street urchin with other homeless boys when his father died and his mother took ill. But luck saves him from living in the streets, when he was rescued by the monks from Carmelite monastery and gave him an opportunity to be a friar in that convent. Unfortunately, he was not too keen to lead that sort of life, instead he continued to draw and one day, when he captures the true essence of a homeless woman and her baby by their souls on a cloak, his art and skill gets noticed by Masaccio, yet another legendary artist of Renaissance period. Followed by an apprenticeship under the great artist while living the convent life, we see Pippo the Sketcher transforming into Fra Filippo Lippi while capturing the angels and the souls of everyday life with such ease and kindness and compassion.
The writing is extremely lyrical and the prose flows like a poetic verse. The author's eloquent words and Florentine flair draws the readers into the core of the story right from the very first page. There is not much narration, but they are kept engaging.
There is lot of art and the art-lovers are in for a treat if they pick this book up, especially the 15th century art when the churches and the cathedrals were being painted with angels and the Virgin and with the images from Christ folklore in Florence for the first time. Since there is not much known about Lippi and his life, so the author relies mostly on Lippi's artwork as well as his own desire for art to re-create as well as give a beautiful painting to his life that is eye-catchy with bright hues of colors and angelic faces. The art world in Florence is the focal point in the book that features some of the greatest artists of that time.
The timeline and city are perfectly depicted into the book, thus promising the readers with a time-warp kind-of feeling. From the culture to the society to the linguistic style to the fashion to the poverty on the streets to the religious values and its importance in Florence in the mid 15th century are vividly portrayed as well as incorporated in the story.
The story about this young boy unreels mostly like a dreamy adventure where there is love, compassion, religion and friendships with light humor and where the author strikingly catches the fine skyline of Florence, thus making the novel a masterpiece of great art work.
Verdict: A perfect read for all those historical fiction lovers and if you want to experience Florence like never before, then do grab a copy of this compelling novel about one of the legendary Florentine artists of all times.
2 of 2 people found the following review helpful.
Novel set in Florence (Filippo Lippi: “the master of presence”)
By TripFiction
A novel for lovers of art. The author takes the reader right back to the early years of 15th Century Florence, when the city and Europe were on the cusp of the Renaissance, and builds a story around the artist Fra Filippo Lippi, formerly known as Pippo.
Pippo started out as a street urchin, his father had died, his mother suffered from melancholia and he had no choice but to join a disparate group of street children who had to make their way in the city. His income largely derived from the drawings he created and then sold. But the hand of luck - perhaps divine intervention even – plucked him from the streets and brought him to the life of a friar in the Carmine. But he was never the staunchest convert and continued to draw, and one day he found himself so taken with the scene of a woman feeding her baby that he had to capture her essence on the inside of his cloak (remembering of course that vellum and wood and walls were the carriers for paintings of that era and paper was still in the early stages of production). Talent spotted, he is apprenticed eventually to the painter Masaccio, who according to Vasari (essentially, the first art historian) was the best painter of his generation because of his ability to form life-like figures that had a real feel of three dimensionality.
He mixed with the great and the good of the art world, Donatello (the genius of the age) and Ghiberti (who created the bronze doors of the Florence Baptistery) and eventually caught the eye of Patron Cosimo de Medici.
It is clear the author has a real passion for art and has carried out extensive research to bring the feel of the art and the age to the modern reader. It was a harsh and cruel world for the poor, and a struggle to eke out the most frugal living. The church was a focal point in the lives of most people, and justice for the populace was summary. There is little known of the life of the actual painter, so the author has had to find his inspiration through the art of the period, as well as his imagination.
I came away from this book feeling that I had been immersed in a period where things were changing on the art front, and by the end I certainly felt more informed. The overall feel of the book is strangely muted and monochrome – the inevitable pungent smells and the visceral sights of the time only occasionally come to the fore; I had anticipated an assault on the senses given the period and so it did at some level feel like a bit of a sanitised retrospective.
The book is mentioned in the same breath as The Miniaturist (set in Amsterdam) and Girl with a Pearl Earring (set in Delft), but for me the vibrancy and colour to be found in those two books wasn’t quite there. The book cover actually reflects the content really well, earthy yet pastel colours and a delicate detail from the painter’s Madonna and Child. Solid and interesting, a good and ultimately gentle read.
2 of 2 people found the following review helpful.
I felt I was there in early fifteenth century Italy...
By Dr. Robin Bentel
Reading The Painter of Souls brought my thinking back to all those most amazing altar pieces, frescos, grandly framed and painted depictions of religious notables and biblical events I've seen in my travels throughout the years. And right here in this book the master painters who had traded their lives to create them have come to life. Somehow, believably so. I've been transfixed turning the pages of this story, where the clock has turned back to the times of the plague, of superstition, of religious control over the thinking and customs of early fifteenth century Italy. With the death of his father, a religious and principled butcher - and his mother who could not continue to manage the family's affairs, or her own life either, without him, Pippo Lippi can no longer cling to the few poverty stricken rooms of their large home left to them after his mother, sister, and he himself become all but destitute. Leaving what little is left to his sister and invalid mother he joins other young orphaned youths living hand to mouth on the streets. Always with a lump of charcoal and scrounged bits of salvaged vellum, he ecks out pennies in exchange for his surprisingly good sketches of the people around him. Years of scrabbling to survive are followed by the kindness of local widow women remembering the goodness and piety of his father. Filipino is brought to the Carmelite Monastery where he finds refuge from street life and removal from the friendship and belonging of his urchin culture. His gifts of artistry coupled with a heart that sees beyond the physical to the divinity and goodness within captivates those around him. Apprenticeship to the notable maestro artists of the day reveal the glory of the works Friar Felippe Lippo then creates. Over time he himself becomes teacher to many other of the most noted painters of his day. A touching, beautifully written story which will have me returning to Florence, Italy seeking out the grand painted works with fresh eyes.
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