Lippo memmi biography

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Lippo Memmi

Italian International Gothic Painter of the Sienese School

1285 -1361

Stylistically influenced by the following painters;His brother-in-law the artist Simone Martini, Coppo di Marcovaldo, and  Duccio di Buoninsegna

Cause of Death - Plague

 

Biography  Lippo Memmi was part of interesting circle of artists who flocked around the illustrious Simone Martini.  Memmi was brother-in-law to the great artist and was heavily by Martini's use of form and color.

Martini had a enormously influential effect on all the young painters of Siena. They flocked to his busy studio watching the master in action.  Like Siena painters of his generation the prevailing characteristic of Memmi's work being slender, supple grace.

True poetry emerges in his St Peter panel,Peter is no longer severe