Filippo and Filippino Lippi. Ingenuity and oddities in the art of the Renaissance

The extraordinary case of a father and son, both painters and illustrators of exceptional talent, will be the protagonist of the Capitoline Museums in the rooms of Palazzo Cappello from 15 May to 25 August 2024 thanks to the exhibition “Filippo and Filippino Lippi. Ingenuity and oddities in the art of the Renaissance”, promoted by Roma Capitale, Capitoline Superintendency of Cultural Heritage and organized by the MetaMorfosi Association, in collaboration with Zètema Progetto Cultura

On display are some masterpieces of Filippo Lippi’s art on wood, from the magnificent Madonna Trivulzio of the Castello Sforzesco in Milan, a manifesto of Lippi’s painting from the fourth decade of the fifteenth century, to the Madonna with angels and patron of the Cini Collection in Venice which shows the way in which Lippi coins an intimate language for private devotion. The double register, official and private, of Lippi’s pictorial production is also presented in the exhibition through the juxtaposition of two small panels from the Uffizi Gallery, rarely exhibited to the public, depicting the Annunciation of the Virgin and Saints Anthony the Abbot and John the Baptist with two large panels depicting Saints Augustine and Ambrose, Gregory and Jerome from the Pinacoteca of the Albertina Academy, Turin, which originally formed the sides of a triptych whose central part is now preserved in the Metropolitan Museum in New York.