In 1472 Botticelli took on his first apprentice, the young Filippino Lippi, son of his master.Dempsey, Hartt, 324; Legouix, 8 Botticelli and Filippino's works from these years, including many Madonna and Child paintings, are often difficult to distinguish from one another. The two also routinely collaborated, as in the panels from a dismantled pair of cassoni, now divided between the Louvre, the National Gallery of Canada, the Musée Condé in Chantilly and the Galleria Pallavicini in Rome.
In 1472 Botticelli took on his first apprentice, the young Filippino Lippi son of his master.Dempsey, Hartt, 324; Legouix, 8 Botticelli and Filippino's works from these years, including many Madonna and Child paintings, are often difficult to distinguish from one another. The two also routinely collaborated, as in the panels from a dismantled pair of cassoni, now divided between the Louvre, the National Gallery of Canada, the Musée Condé in Chantilly and the Galleria Pallavicini in Rome.