Lippo Memmi
Italian painter (c. 1291 ā 1356) / From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
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Lippo Memmi (c. 1291 ā 1356) was an Italian painter from Siena. He was the foremost follower of Simone Martini, who was his brother-in-law.
Lippo Memmi | |
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Born | c. 1291 Siena, Italy |
Died | 1356 Siena, Italy |
Known for | Painting |
Movement | Sienese School |
Together with Martini, in 1333 he painted what is regarded as one of the masterworks of the International Gothic, the Annunciation with St. Margaret and St. Ansanus (now in the Uffizi), probably mainly working on the two saints. He was one of the artists who worked at Orvieto Cathedral, for which he finished the Virgin of Mercy ("Madonna dei Raccomandati"). Later he followed Martini to the Papal court in Avignon, where he worked until the mid-14th century. After his return to Siena, Memmi continued to work until his death in 1356.
Memmi's famed artwork, La Madonna della Febbre was the first venerated image of the Blessed Virgin Mary granted with a Canonical coronation by a Pope on 27 May 1631. The image has long been since held miraculous and is enshrined at the Sacristy chapel of the Blessed Sacrament inside Saint Peter's Basilica in Rome.