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How long was Fra Filippo Lippi said to have been enslaved according to Giorgio Vasari?
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Fra Filippo Lippi
Madonna and Child, tempera on poplar panel by Fra Filippo Lippi, c. 1440; in the National Gallery of Art, Washington, D.C., 79 Ć 51.1 cm.
According to the Renaissance biographer Giorgio Vasari, the painter Fra Filippo Lippi was enslaved for 18 months after being abducted by pirates on the Adriatic Sea. Vasariās account claims that Lippi was eventually freed after he painted a portrait of his enslaver.1