Lippo Memmi
Lippo Memmi was a Sienese (better Sienese) painter of the early Renaissance and is attributed to the School of Siena . His work is documented from 1285 to 1357 by written sources .
With his better - known brother-in-law , Simone Martini , he signed the Annunciation to Mary in 1335 for the Cappella di S. Ansano of the cathedral in Siena , which is now in the Uffizi in Florence .
As early as 1317 he made with his father Memmo di Filippuccio a number of Maestà - frescoes for the new city hall of San Gimignano , which virtually repeated martinis Maestà in the Palazzo Pubblico of Siena. Here as there, as later on Stefan Lochner's altar of the Three Kings , the entourage appears in order to the right and left; a canopy denotes the sovereignty zone like the relief-like canopy frame and painted brocade hangings in Lochner's Adoration of the Three Kings Altar.
From the hand Memmi some exist Madonna - panel paintings in the collections of Altenburg , Berlin , Munich , Orvieto and Siena. While his relatives tried to embody the festive joy in their pictures, Memmi's pictures are characterized by a tendency towards slight melancholy .
According to the city archives of San Gimignano, he is also said to have worked in this city as the architect of the city walls and a tower that has been preserved to this day.
literature
- Ilan Rachum, Atlantis-Verlag 1991: Encyclopedia of the Renaissance , ISBN 9783761107256
Web links
- Works by Lippo Memmi at Zeno.org .
- Short biography of the Munich Pinakothek with a picture example
- Depiction of St. Julitta in a picture of Memmis
| personal data | |
|---|---|
| SURNAME | Memmi, Lippo |
| ALTERNATIVE NAMES | Filippo di Memmo; Memmi, Lippo |
| BRIEF DESCRIPTION | Italian painter |
| DATE OF BIRTH | around 1285 |
| DATE OF DEATH | around 1357 |