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Lippo di Dalmasio [Lippo delle Madonne]
(d c. 1410). Italian painter. First recorded in Bologna, he was probably trained by his father DALMASIO SCANNABECCHI and his uncle Simone dei Crocefissi. In 1377 he was a Bolognese citizen resident in Pistoia. He is recorded in both Bologna and Pistoia in 1385 but returned finally to Bologna in 1389. This phase of Lippo’s career is represented by a fresco of the Madonna of Humility with SS Dominic and Catherine (Pistoia, S Domenico), striking for its expressive triangular faces appealing to the spectator, and for the pavilion over the Virgin, a feature probably invented by Vitale da Bologna and much copied by his followers. The linear simplification of form combined with simple areas of boldly contrasted colour and the choice of the Madonna of Humility as the subject remain typical of his work. Later he appears to have been influenced by the Florentine art of Andrea di Cione and his brothers.
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