Lippo Vanni worked in and around Siena as a manuscript illuminator as well as a fresco and panel painter. The commissions he received after the mid-1300s indicate that patrons thought of him as one of the leading painters of his day. In 1356, a record of the painters working in Siena lists Vanni's name first. Vanni illuminated choir books for the church in San Gimignano and a hospital in Siena. He
