Fra Filippo Lippi was an Italian painter active in the 1430s-1460s. In the 1430s, he painted frescoes for the Carmelite Order and an altarpiece in Empoli. In 1432, he left the Carmelite convent permanently. By 1437, he had signed and dated the Tarquinia Madonna in Florence and received an important commission for the Barbadori chapel. In the 1440s, he received papal support and commissions from the Medici and the Signoria. His Annunciation in San Lorenzo utilized the church's architecture. In the 1450s, he created the celebrated Pitti Tondo and frescoed the Prato Cathedral choir