Filippino Lippi and Rome (and Cleveland)

Lunchtime Lecture

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  • Ticket Required

Come to the CMA for a quick bite of art history. Every first Tuesday of each month, join curators, conservators, scholars, and other museum staff for 30-minute talks on objects currently on display in the museum galleries. 

Tuesday, January 6, 2026, 12:00–1:00 p.m.
Alexander Noelle, Henry and Anne Ott-Hansen Family Associate Curator of European Paintings and Sculpture, 1500–1800
Location:  Gartner Auditorium
Suzanne and Paul Westlake Performing Arts Center
Free; Ticket Required
Reserve Ticket
a group of people looking at a painting in a museum

About The Event

In the century following his death, Florentine painter Filippino Lippi (c. 1457–1504) was celebrated as “a painter of the most beautiful intelligence and the most lovely invention.” One of the most gifted Renaissance painters, Filippino achieved great success across the Italian peninsula following his training with luminaries Fra Filippo Lippi and Sandro Botticelli. 

The current exhibition in the Julia and Larry Pollock Focus Gallery, Filippino Lippi and Rome, reconsiders the painter’s time in the Eternal City, where he found inspiration in the fragments of ancient paintings, sculpture, and architecture that resulted in a shift in both his style and iconography. The CMA’s own important tondo by Filippino, The Holy Family with Saint John the Baptist and Saint Margaret, is the centerpiece of the show. In this lecture, curator of the exhibition Alexander J. Noelle traces Filippino’s career across time and media, narrates the museum’s dramatic acquisition of the tondo, and draws connections between the CMA’s painting and other Renaissance artists, including Leonardo da Vinci.

Sponsors

All education programs at the Cleveland Museum of Art are underwritten by the CMA Fund for Education. Principal support is provided by Dieter and Susan M. Kaesgen and Gail C. and Elliott L. Schlang. Major annual support is provided by Brenda and Marshall Brown, Eva and Rudolf Linnebach, Medical Mutual of Ohio, the Edwin D. Northrup II Fund, Shurtape Technologies, and the Kelvin and Eleanor Smith Foundation. Generous annual support is provided by Gini and Randy Barbato, the M. E. and F. J. Callahan Foundation, Dr. William A. Chilcote Jr. and Dr. Barbara S. Kaplan, Char and Chuck Fowler, the Giant Eagle Foundation, Linda Harper, the late Marta and the late Donald M. Jack Jr., Susan LaPine, Bill and Joyce Litzler, the Logsdon Family Fund for Education, Sarah Nash, Courtney and Michael Novak, William J. and Katherine T. O’Neill, the Pickering Foundation, William Roj and Mary Lynn Durham, Suzanne Cushwa Rusnak and Jeff Rusnak, Ellen and Lowell Satre, in memory of Dee Schafer, Betty T. and David M. Schneider, the Sally and Larry Sears Fund for Education Endowment, Roy Smith, Paula and Eugene Stevens, the Trilling Family Foundation, Jack and Jeanette Walton, and the Womens Council of the Cleveland Museum of Art.

    The Cleveland Museum of Art is funded in part by residents of Cuyahoga County through a public grant from Cuyahoga Arts & Culture.

    Education programs are supported in part by the Ohio Arts Council, which receives support from the State of Ohio and the National Endowment for the Arts.