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    • Madonna and Child with Saints and Angels, ca. 1350
    Lippo Memmi (Filippo di Memmo) (Italian, Sienese, active by 1317, died 1356)
    Tempera on wood, gold ground

    Overall, with shaped top and engaged (partially modern) frame, 26 1/4 x 13 in. (66.7 x 33 cm); painted surface 19 3/4 x 10 1/8 in. (50.2 x 25.7 cm); predella 1 1/2 x 10 in. (3.8 x 25.4 cm)
    Maitland F. Griggs Collection, Bequest of Maitland F. Griggs, 1943 (43.98.6)

    Painted in around 1350, this exquisite panel formed a diptych with a Crucifixion, now in the Louvre. The Madonna and Child are flanked by Saints John the Baptist, Francis of Assisi, and the nine choirs of heavenly angels. Other saints are below in a minuscule predella. Lippi was the brother-in-law of Simone Martini, with whom he sometimes collaborated. In this work, he attains a refinement of execution equal to that of his famous relation. The reverse side is silvered (now oxidized) and tooled.

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  • Christiansen, Keith. "Fourteenth-Century Italian Altarpieces." The Metropolitan Museum of Art Bulletin, v. 40, no. 1 (Summer, 1982).
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    • "Director's Note" PDF
    • "Introduction" PDF
  • Mallory, Michael. "An Altarpiece by Lippo Memmi Reconsidered." Metropolitan Museum Journal, Vol. 9 (1974).
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    • Madonna and Child with Saints and Angels, ca. 1350
    Lippo Memmi (Filippo di Memmo) (Italian, Sienese, active by 1317, died 1356)
    Tempera on wood, gold ground

    Overall, with shaped top and engaged (partially modern) frame, 26 1/4 x 13 in. (66.7 x 33 cm); painted surface 19 3/4 x 10 1/8 in. (50.2 x 25.7 cm); predella 1 1/2 x 10 in. (3.8 x 25.4 cm)
    Maitland F. Griggs Collection, Bequest of Maitland F. Griggs, 1943 (43.98.6)


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