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Filippo Scannabecchi (1352 – c. 1410), known as Lippo di Dalmasio, was an
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painter from
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, a son of Dalmasio Scannabecchi.


Biography

His father was Dalmasio Scannabecchi (sometimes referred to as ''pseudo-Dalmasio''), a Bolognese painter from a minor noble family who migrated to Pistoia during a period of
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rule in Bologna.Pini p. 56 Lippo presumably trained both with his father and his paternal uncle Simone dei Crocefissi. While still a boy he was accompanied to Pistoia by his uncle. Recorded as a Bolognese citizen resident in Pistoia in 1377 (and present in both Bologna and Pistoia in 1385) he eventually returned to Bologna in 1389. Part of the school of
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, he was also influenced by Tuscan artists such as
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(Orcagna) and his brothers
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and Nardo. Between 1391 and 1410 he painted many depictions of the Virgin and Child, some of which are signed. These led to him being nicknamed in the 16th century Lippo delle Madonne, and he is among the early Bolognese painters mentioned by
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in ''Felsina Pittrice'' (1678).


Name confusion

The name 'Muratori', by which one or two writers have styled him, really belongs to
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, a seventeenth-century female painter.


Further reading

* Boggi, Flavio and Gibbs, Robert: ''The Life and Career of Lippo di Dalmasio, a Bolognese Painter of the Late Fourteenth Century: With Illustrations and a Catalogue of His Works.'' The Edwin Mellen Press, 2010. . * Boggi, Flavio and Gibbs, Robert: ''Lippo di Dalmasio. «Assai valente pittore»''.
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, Bologna 2013. .


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