Filippo Lippi, known as Filippino to distinguish him from his father, one of the most celebrated and valued painters of his day, became an artist of the first rank in his turn.  From his very earliest works, his darting figures stood out for their wistful grace and for the almost disturbing whimsicality that distinguishes them from the style of Botticelli, with whom he collaborated on an equal footing rather than as a mere apprentice, and eventually going on to become a fearsome rival.
Thus, in the wake of a recent and very important monograph edited by Patrizia Zambrano and Jonathan K. Nelson (2005), the exhibition at the , curated by Alessandro Cecchi, will be introducing the public to the works of one of Italian art's most prolific and talented masters.
In its now traditional cycle of five lectures, the has once again called on the greatest experts in the field to explore the central themes of the exhibition, providing the public with a truly unique opportunity to familiarize in greater depth with an artist who left us one of his most celebrated and vibrant works right here in Rome, in the Carafa Chapel in the Basilica of Santa Maria sopra Minerva.