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Torelli, Filippo [Pippo] di Matteo
(b Florence, 1409; d Florence, 2 May 1468). Italian illuminator. He trained in the bottega of Michele di Giovanni Guarducci (1387–1453) between 1438 and 1442. From 1446 he decorated a series of choir-books for the Capitolo di S Marco, among which the Gradual (1456–7; Venice, Fond. Cini, no. 2151) from S Pancrazio is of special interest for its introduction of the ‘heroic putto’. He also decorated several manuscripts for Florence Cathedral: for example, two Psalters (Florence, Mus. Opera Duomo, N. II, 3 and O, 4), which were illustrated by Zanobi Strozzi, with whom he continued to collaborate, and an Antiphonary (Florence, Mus. Opera Duomo, U. 46) for which he was paid in 1450–51. Between 1454 and 1463 Torelli worked on the borders of two Graduals (Florence, Bib. Medicea-Laurenziana, MSS Edili 149 and 151), also for the cathedral. Here the figure style recalls the work of Ser Ricciardo di Nanni, who was his pupil, and of Francesco di Antonio del Chierico. In the same period Torelli participated in the decoration of the choir-books (Florence, Archivio del Capitolo di S Lorenzo, Corale K. 209) for the Badia of Fiesole.
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