Lippo Memmi

Italian Painter of the Sienese School

1285 -1361

Stylistically influenced by the following painters; Simone Martini, Coppo di Marcovaldo, and  Duccio di Buoninsegna

Cause of Death - Plague

   
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Lippo Memmi was part of devoted circle of artists who flocked around the illustrious Simone Martini.  Martini's use of form had a enormously influential effect on the young painters who surrounded him. The prevailing characteristic of Memmi's work being slender, supple grace. In his St Peter panel, Peter is no longer severe and dignified, but temperate and merciful, as if he has  pity upon the longing soul of the believer. Memmi explored in his own art a new world of emotion and passion, but with a lyricism and deep sensitivity to color.

His subjects, like his predecessors, are all religious – the Virgin Mary, the Life of Christ, the Apostles, Angeles and the Life of St. Francis.

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