But an exhibition at the Metropolitan Museum of Art in New York, “Hidden Faces: Covered Portraits of the Renaissance,” reveals how many works of art from the period were deliberately covered ...

On view through July 7, the Metropolitan Museum of Art’s Hidden Faces: Covered Portraits of the Renaissance explores this under-recognized tradition, tracing the practice from its origins in ...

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 ...

Covered Portraits of the Renaissance” at the Metropolitan Museum showing paintings in double-sided glass cases.Credit...Eileen Travell, via The Metropolitan Museum of Art The exhibition itself ...

There’s still a lot that we need to discover.” “Hidden Faces: Covered Portraits of the Renaissance” is on view at the Metropolitan Museum of Art in New York City through July 7.

The vicissitudes of renaissance sculpture are strange; its life, its power, depend upon death; it is an art developed in the burying vault and cloister cemetery. View Full Article in Timesmachine ...

Have you ever seen a Renaissance portrait quite like this one by Titian ... The other, in the Metropolitan Museum of Art, portrays Archinto conventionally. Only this version, at the Philadelphia ...