Fra Filippo loved the world in which he found so much beauty. For all that, his art reveals neither sensuality nor worldliness. He was indeed, as Mr. Berenson so happily describes him, a genre-painter, whose genre was that of the soul, as that of others was of the body. But he expressed the soul through the body. As M. André Maurel has it: "Before painting faces, he looked at them, which was a new thing.... He was a great painter, because he was a man." The plates are printed by BEMROSE & SONS, LTD., Derby and London The text at the BALLANTYNE PRESS, Edinburgh FOOTNOTES: [1] _The Florentine Painters of the Renaissance_, by Bernhard Berenson (G. P. Putnam's Sons). [2] He retained this post until July 1452. Transcriber's Note: Table of Contents added by Transcriber. End of the Project Gutenberg EBook of Filippo Lippi, by Paul G. Konody