Today, we think of Renaissance portraiture as paintings on canvas or church walls, viewed openly. But an exhibition at the Metropolitan Museum of Art in New York, “Hidden Faces: Covered ...

“Hidden Faces: Covered Portraits of the Renaissance,” a new exhibition at the Metropolitan Museum of Art, will be the first ever to showcase the history of a peculiar and little-known practice ...

In their naturalism and immediacy, Renaissance portraits communicate to us across time. But as the Metropolitan Museum of Art’s exhibition “Hidden Faces: Covered Portraits of the Renaissance ...

By Karen Rosenberg The Met’s delightful show “Hidden Faces: Covered Portraits of the Renaissance” illuminates a curious trend in 15th- and 16th-century painting: the slow reveal. The works ...

“Hidden Faces: Covered Portraits of the Renaissance” is the first exhibition to examine the tradition of multisided portraiture during the 15th and 16th centuries. Featuring 60 works by ...

Her gaze is steely, direct and somewhat confrontational. The painting, “Portrait of a Woman” (circa 1575) by the Italian Renaissance master Giovanni Battista Moroni, was a centerpiece of a ...

Half a millennium ago, the Protestant rebel priest Martin Luther sent out a number of small paintings as a marital announcement with political implications. He’d commissioned German painter ...