Lowry kicks off, pop goes kinky and the wild man of Florence is tamed – the week in art

The painter of the industrial north heads south, the Hockney of Soho displays all and debauched artist Filippo Lippi lays his sins at the altar – all in your weekly dispatch

LS Lowry The strangest and perhaps most truthful painter of modern Britain gets a thorough looking at. MK Gallery, Milton Keynes, 24 October to 28 February

Allen Jones Kinky pop art from the diehard naughty boy of 1960s British painting – the Hockney of Soho? Gazelli Art House, London, until 18 December

Multiplied Wonders Woodcuts by Jacopo de’ Barbari, Albrecht Dürer and more reveal the power of the reproduced image in the Renaissance. British Museum, London, until 21 March

Beyond Bayeux Yinka Shonibare, Hurvin Anderson and others design tapestries in collaboration with Edinburgh’s Dovecot Studios, in a somewhat opportunistically titled show. Guildhall Art Gallery, London, until 21 March

Anne Redpath Landscapes on Skye with white houses and bright green fields tenderly depicted in gouache and watercolour. National, Edinburgh, until 6 December

Sheep dung, snails and mouse brains are all beautiful … if you look closely enough. This artwork could be a newly discovered planet or an abstract piece by Stanley Donwood for Radiohead’s A Moon Shaped Pool, but the truth is tinier: this is the tip of a ballpoint pen, a winning entry from the Nikon Small World photography competition.

Bowie, bodybuilders and a blubbering Frenchman have changed the way we see masculinity

Light and Magic: The Birth of Art Photography at Tate Modern will stop you in your tracks

Photos of bustling dancefloors show a changing America through the decades

Frieze art fair is open, and we’ve identified 10 things worth seeing

Bondi beach in Sydney is alive with sculpture

Designer Kate Faulkner is stepping out of William Morris’s shadow in a show that celebrates her influence on Morris & Co Olivier Mourgue, whose Djinn armchairs featured in 2001: A Space Odyssey, has died Great Pottery Throw Down judge Keith Brymer dressed up for a trip down memory lane

Federico Veronesi’s best photograph is a devastating portrait of a grieving elephant

Artist Tony Albert is reappropriating racist artefacts of Aboriginalia for his show Not a Souvenir in Sydney

A new book documents the key players in Cameroon’s vast visual art history

A Paris exhibition explores Ghana before and after it was ripped to shreds by colonialism

St Jerome and the Lion: Predella Panel by Fra Filippo Lippi and Workshop, 1455-60

Filippo Lippi was the wild man of early 15th-century Florentine art, if the stories told about him in the Renaissance are anything to go by. It was even said his patron Cosimo de’ Medici had to lock him in the Medici palace to stop his debauchery. There is a core of fact behind the tales, as Filippo – a friar – is known from legal records to have had children with an escaped nun, Lucrezia Buti. Their son Filippino also became an artist. But whatever his life was like, there’s no lack of piety in this painting of the early Christian Jerome, a real historical figure who translated the Bible into Latin. The lion tamely lets the holy man pull a thorn from its paw, in an intricately painted mountainous landscape with a pink church. Jerome concentrates on his work, as you would if you were de-thorning a dangerous big cat. This is just a small panel from the base of an altarpiece but it packs in the emotion and humanity that makes Lippi a great artist, in spite of, or because of, his sins.

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