lso who painted the wings of the tabernacle of the church of
S. Giovanni, where are Andrea's angels and his St John, in relief,
doing some stories of St John the Baptist in tempera, with great
diligence. Being very fond of working in mosaic, he did some in that
church over the door leading towards the Misericordia, between the
windows, which was considered very beautiful and the best work in
mosaic produced in that place with them. In the same church he
further repaired some mosaics which had been damaged. Outside
Florence, in S. Giovanni fra l'Arcora, without the gate leading to
Faenza, he painted a number of figures in fresco beside Buffalmacco's
Crucifixion, which was considered very beautiful by all who saw them.
In certain small hospitals near the Faenza gate and in S. Antonio
inside that gate near the hospital, he did some poor men, in fresco,
in some varied styles and attitudes, very beautifully executed, and
in the cloister within he made, with beautiful and new invention, the
vision of St Anthony of the deceits of the world, and next to that
the desires and appetites of men, who are drawn hither and thither to
divers things of this world, the whole of the work being executed
with much consideration and judgment. Lippo also did mosaic work in
many places of Italy, and in the Guelph quarter at Florence he made a
figure with a glass head, while Pisa contains a number of his
productions. Yet in spite of all this he must be considered a really
unfortunate man, since at the present time the greater part of his
works have disappeared, having been destroyed in the siege of
Florence, and also because his career was terminated in a very tragic
manner; for being a quarrelsome man and liking turmoil belter than
quiet, he happened one morning to say some very insulting words to an
opponent at the tribunal of the Mercanzia, and that evening as he was
returning home, he was dogged by this man and stabbed in the breast
with a knife, so that in a few days he perished miserably. His
paintings were produced about 1410. There flourished at Bologna in
Lippo's time another painter whose name was also Lippo Dalmasi, who
was a worthy man, and among other things he painted a Madonna in the
year 1407, which may still be seen in S. Petronio at Bologna and
which is held in great veneration. He also painted in fresco the
tympanum above the door of S. Procolo, and in the church of S.
Francesco in the tribune of the high altar, he made a larg