Memmo di Filippuccio

Memmo di Filippuccio was an Italian painter from Siena.

Biography Memmo di Filippuccio is mentioned in the municipal records as painting several works at the Town Hall of San Gimignano in 1303. The frescoed decorations are in the mayoral chamber and show scenes of everyday life. The best known of the frescos are two scenes of domestic bliss. The first shows a husband and wife taking a bath together in a large tub, surrounded by a striped screen and attended by a maid, The second scene shows the bedroom with the maid holding back the curtains to reveal the wife in bed while her husband pulls back the covers to climb in bedside her. These frescos "are among the most frequently reproduced documents used to illustrates daily life.... of the early 14th century." Memmo was given a house and workshop in San Gimignano.