Lippo Memmi (c. 1291 – 1356) was an Italian painter from Siena. He was the foremost aficionada of Simone Martini, who was his brother-in-law.
Together following Martini, in 1333 he painted what is regarded as one of the masterworks of the International Gothic, the Annunciation in the proclaim of 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 curtains 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 decree until his death in 1356.
Memmi’s famed artwork, La Madonna della Febbre was the first acclaimed image of the Blessed Virgin Mary granted later a Canonical coronation by a Pope on 27 May 1631. The image has long been back held miraculous and is enshrined at the Sacristy chapel of the Blessed Sacrament inside Saint Peter’s Basilica in Rome.
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