Portraits in the Renaissance era didn’t just hang on walls, but were often concealed behind painted panels, shutters, or contained in boxes. “Hidden Faces” at the Metropolitan Museum of Art ...

Portraits in the Renaissance era didn’t just hang on walls, but were often concealed behind painted panels, shutters, or contained in boxes. “Hidden Faces” at the Metropolitan Museum of Art ...

Portraits in the Renaissance era didn’t just hang on walls, but were often concealed behind painted panels, shutters, or contained in boxes. “Hidden Faces” at the Metropolitan Museum of Art ...

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 ...

The culprit was mimicking the pose of a Renaissance-era prince in one of the paintings at Florence’s Uffizi Gallery when the ...

Artist Nick Ensing is going back in time to remedy a lack of representation: He’s using Renaissance-era painting techniques to portray Black individuals in spaces that were, at the time, over… ...

The Renaissance tends to be thought of as the wellspring of high culture in the West, giving us humanistic inquiry, vernacular literature and linear perspective, but it was also an era of disaster ...

Portraits in the Renaissance era didn’t just hang on walls, but were often concealed behind painted panels, shutters, or contained in boxes. “Hidden Faces” at the Metropolitan Museum of Art ...

Portraits in the Renaissance era didn’t just hang on walls, but were often concealed behind painted panels, shutters, or contained in boxes. “Hidden Faces” at the Metropolitan Museum of Art explores ...