a passionate and dense study that integrates the vast [ Filippino Lippi] monograph of almost twenty years earlier, with fewer details but with an even sharper capacity for critical penetration. -- Edoardo Villata * Critica d'Arte * Abundant invention and a special intelligence define Filippino Lippis works as presented by Jonathan K. Nelson, who matches those qualities in his analysis of the artists career. Filippino emerges here in all of his creative versatility. Nelson demonstrates the painters stylistic sensitivity, showing how he met the demands of different situations with striking and innovative solutions. Highly praised in his time, Filippino provoked new ways of looking. Nelson, in turn, provides a fascinating new way of seeing Lippi and his works. * Patricia Rubin, Emerita Professor of Art History, New York University * Nelson's book combines a rigorous historical approach with an admirable openness to ideas that make it the most sophisticated and well-rounded monograph on the artist yet written. By thoughtfully defining the special qualities of this inventive painter, Nelson offers his readers new insights into how Filippino's work was understood by his contemporaries and how his inventiveness mattered in his own time. * Christian K. Kleinbub, Professor of Italian Renaissance Art, Ohio State University * Nelson, a highly respected scholar and the premiere authority on Filippino Lippi, offers a fresh perspective of an artist who "was always aiming at novelty" . . . The attractive volume has 70 color illustrations placed at appropriate points in the short, 200-page text. Like other volumes in the series, this is a contribution from which scholars and graduate students will gain much and undergraduates are ensured a reliable, informed, affordable introduction to a fascinating artist. * Choice *
