Hidden Faces

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Covered Portraits of the Renaissance

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Highlighting the creativity and symbolism of covered portraits, this volume explores an intriguing but largely unknown aspect of Italian and Northern European Renaissance art. Many small Renaissance portraits were richly adorned with covers or backs bearing allegorical figures, mythological scenes, or emblems that celebrated the sitter... Read More

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Hidden Faces

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Highlighting the creativity and symbolism of covered portraits, this volume explores an intriguing but largely unknown aspect of Italian and Northern European Renaissance art

Description

Highlighting the creativity and symbolism of covered portraits, this volume explores an intriguing but largely unknown aspect of Italian and Northern European Renaissance art.

Many small Renaissance portraits were richly adorned with covers or backs bearing allegorical figures, mythological scenes, or emblems that celebrated the sitter and invited the viewer to decipher their meaning. Hidden Faces includes seventy objects, ranging in format from covered paintings to miniature boxes, that illuminate the symbiotic relationship between the portrait and its pair. Texts by thirteen distinguished scholars vividly illustrate that the other "faces" of these portraits represent some of the most innovative images of the Renaissance, created by masters such as Hans Memling and Titian.

Uniting works that have in some cases been separated for centuries, this fascinating volume shows how the multifaceted format unveiled the sitter's identity, both by physically revealing the portrait and reading the significance behind its cover.

Published by The Metropolitan Museum of Art/Distributed by Yale University Press

Exhibition Schedule:

The Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York

(April 2–July 7, 2024)

Book Details

INFORMATION

ISBN: 9781588397751

Publisher: Metropolitan Museum of Art

Format: Hardback

Date Published: 30 April 2024

Country: United States

Imprint: Metropolitan Museum of Art

Illustration: 204 color illus.

Contributors:

Contributions by Andrea Bayer
Edited by Alison Manges Nogueira
Contributions by Maryan Wynn Ainsworth
Contributions by Carmen C. Bambach
Contributions by Angelica Dülberg
Contributions by Shirin Fozi
Contributions by Wolfram Koeppe
Contributions by Sarah E. Lawrence
Contributions by Joanna Sheers Seidenstein
Contributions by Joanna Seidenstein

Audience: Professional and scholarly

DIMENSIONS

Width: 216.0mm

Height: 254.0mm

Weight: 250g

Pages: 232

Collections

Arts & Culture Non-Fiction

About the Author

Alison Manges Nogueira is curator in the Robert Lehman Collection at The Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York.