Lippo Memmi

Lippo Memmi was a Sienese painter of the early Renaissance and the School of Siena is attributed. His work is occupied 1285-1357 by written sources.

With his better-known brother, Simone Martini, he signed in 1335, the " Annunciation " for the Cappella di S. Ansano of the cathedral in Siena, which is now in the Uffizi Gallery in Florence.

As early as 1317 he produced along with his father Memmo di Filipuccio a series of Maestà frescoes for the new city hall of San Gimignano, the quasi Martinis Maestà repeated from the Palazzo Pubblico of Siena. Here, as there appears, sorted later on Stefan Lochner Three king altar, the entourage right and left; a canopy refers to the territorial zone as the relief-like canopy frame and painted curtain made of brocade in Lochner Adoration of the Three Kings altar.

From the hand Memmi exist some Madonna - panel paintings in the collections of Altenburg, Berlin, Munich, Orvieto, and Siena. While his relatives sought to embody more of the festive joy in their pictures to Memmi images are characterized by a tendency to slight melancholy.

According to City Archives of San Gimignano it should be acted as an architect of the city wall and a tower in this city, which has been preserved until today.