CLEVELAND, Ohio — If you’re rolling into Cleveland this Thanksgiving weekend (or family and friends are coming to you!) and wondering what’s doing beyond the usual holiday hustle, here’s something unexpectedly deep.

Cleveland Museum of Art’s new exhibition, “Filippino Lippi and Rome” is one of those moments when art history opens a door you didn’t even know you wanted to walk through — and once you’re inside, you’re completely hooked.

Filippino Lippi, for those who don’t live and breathe Renaissance painters, was not just another Florentine artist — he was a wizard of invention. He trained under his dad — the legendary Fra Filippo Lippi — and later Botticelli.

Yet, his real breakthrough came during a pivotal stretch he spent in Rome between 1488 and 1493. That Roman chapter changed ever

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