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Memmo di Filippuccio (active 1303-1345) was a 14th-century painter from
Siena Siena ( , ; lat, Sena Iulia) is a city in Tuscany, Italy. It is the capital of the province of Siena. The city is historically linked to commercial and banking activities, having been a major banking center until the 13th and 14th centuri ...
, Italy.


Biography

Memmo di Filippuccio is mentioned in the municipal records as painting several works at the Town Hall of
San Gimignano San Gimignano () is a small walled medieval hill town in the province of Siena, Tuscany, north-central Italy. Known as the Town of Fine Towers, San Gimignano is famous for its medieval architecture, unique in the preservation of about a dozen of ...
in 1303.Rosella Vantaggi, ''San Gimignano, Town of Fine Towers'', Plurigraf (1979) The frescoed decorations are in the mayoral chamber and show scenes of everyday life. The best known of the frescos are two scenes of domestic bliss. The first shows a husband and wife taking a bath together in a large tub, surrounded by a striped screen and attended by a maid, The second scene shows the bedroom with the maid holding back the curtains to reveal the wife in bed while her husband pulls back the covers to climb in bedside her.Anne Mueller von der Hagen, Ruth Strasser, ''Art and Architecture of Tuscany'', Kőnemann, 2001, These frescos "are among the most frequently reproduced documents used to illustrates daily life.... of the early 14th century."UNESCO,
Historic Centre of San Gimignano
', (accessed 06-09-2012) Memmo was given a house and workshop in San Gimignano. Memmo di Filippucci had two sons who were painters, Lippo Memmi and Federico Memmi. His son-in-law was
Simone Martini Simone Martini ( – 1344) was an Italian painter born in Siena. He was a major figure in the development of early Italian painting and greatly influenced the development of the International Gothic style. It is thought that Martini was a pupil ...
, one of the most outstanding and influential painters of Siena. In 1317, Lippo di Memmi received a commission to paint a large Maesta in the main chamber of the Town Hall. It is thought that Memmo assisted his son with this work. Memmo may also have worked with Lippo Memmi on the fresco cycle of the New Testament in the
Collegiate Church of San Gimignano The Collegiata di Santa Maria Assunta or Duomo di San Gimignano is a Roman Catholic collegiate church and minor basilica in San Gimignano, in Tuscany in central Italy. It contains important cycles of Renaissance frescoes by artists including Dom ...
, completed around 1345. These frescos have long been ascribed to "Barna of Siena" but are now believed to be the work of Lippo di Memmi and workshop.Gordon Moran, ''Silencing Scientists and Scholars in Other Fields'', Ablex Publishing Corporation, (1998) .'' pp.79-81


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Collegiate Church of San Gimignano The Collegiata di Santa Maria Assunta or Duomo di San Gimignano is a Roman Catholic collegiate church and minor basilica in San Gimignano, in Tuscany in central Italy. It contains important cycles of Renaissance frescoes by artists including Dom ...
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Duccio Duccio di Buoninsegna ( , ; – ) was an Italian painter active in Siena, Tuscany, in the late 13th and early 14th century. He was hired throughout his life to complete many important works in government and religious buildings around Italy. Ducc ...
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Giotto Giotto di Bondone (; – January 8, 1337), known mononymously as Giotto ( , ) and Latinised as Giottus, was an Italian painter and architect from Florence during the Late Middle Ages. He worked during the Gothic/Proto-Renaissance period. Giot ...


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