DALMASIO LIPPO. — Also known as L. delle Madonne; a Bolognese painter, born around 1352, who died between 1410 (the date of his will) and 1421 (the year his heirs are mentioned). He was the son of the painter D. Jacopo Scannabecchi and the nephew of Simone dei Crocifissi. He followed the art of Vitale da Bologna, incorporating Tuscan elements, particularly from Pistoia, which he visited from 1380 to 1384.
He produced numerous images of the Virgin and Child, including a much-retouched work in the London Pinacoteca, the Madonna (known as the Velvet Madonna) in S. Domenico in Bologna, the graceful Madonna in the church of the Misericordia dated 1397, and another in S. Benedetto in the same city. At the Pii Istituiti educativi in Bologna, there is a large triptych with the Madonna enthroned and saints, an early work closely related to Simone dei Crocifissi. The Bolognese Pinacoteca preserves a signed Madonna of Humility and a small Coronation of the Virgin, part of a dismembered polyptych. Various sacred images painted on the walls of houses in Bologna, now lost to time, are also attributed to him.