Download or read book A Gift for the Magus written by Linda Proud and published by . This book was released on 2012 with total page 472 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Fra Filippo Lippi is notorious for his contempt of his vows; he was never obedient and never chaste. The nun who modelled for his pictures of the Virgin Mary became the mother of his children. Yet this apparently 'bad' man painted divine pictures; moreover, he was the favourite painter of that very astute patron, Cosimo de' Medici.