Lippo di Benivieni (active 1296–1327)

• Was an Italian painter.
• He is one of the most important artistic personalities of Florentine painting of the first half of the fourteenth century.
• Influenced by the Giotto school.
• His workshop is documented as active from 1296 and he was enrolled in the Guild of Doctors and Apothecaries between 1312 and 1320.
• He worked on prestigious commissions, such as a tabernacle for the Baptistery of San Giovanni, for which in 1314 he painted two doors.
• In 1316 he was active in Santa Maria Novella.
• His main patron remained the female monastery of San Pier Maggiore, for whose church he executed a series of works over the first twenty years of the fourteenth century such as the Cross now in the Museo dell'Opera di Santa Croce, and the polyptych for the Alessandri chapel.
• Other referable works are the tabernacle now in Memphis (1310-1315) and the Lamentation over the Dead Christ in the Civic Museum of Pistoia.
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