Portraits go undercover in the new Metropolitan Museum show “Hidden Faces,” about the practice of concealing artworks behind sliding panels and reverse-side paintings.

Hidden Faces: Covered Portraits of the Renaissance explores the paintings concealed behind mirrors, in folded diptychs, and on the backs of other works. by Elaine Velie April 14, 2024 April 12, 2024 ...

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 ...

Renaissance Portrait of “Ugly Duchess” Likely Depicts a Man ... as men are usually assigned to the lefthand side of Renaissance portrait diptychs to signify their power.

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 ...

This portrait is emblematic of the essential inequality at the heart of Renaissance marriage. Men – and wealthy men at that – were responsible for the vast majority of the surviving documents ...

A portrait of a woman with wrinkled skin, withered breasts, and eyes set deep in their sockets, might well be one of the Renaissance’s most famous paintings. It is also one of the period’s ...

Take one of the centerpieces of “Hidden Faces,” an oil-on-wood picture, “Portrait of a Woman (La Monaca)” (circa 1510), attributed to Ridolfo Ghirlandaio, grandson of Domenico and nephew of Davide.

Art & Exhibitions The Met’s New Show Brings Together Renaissance Portraits That Aren’t What They Seem. Artists used the back of canvases, hinges, panels and codes to reveal secret messages.

The 1513 portrait “An Old Woman” by Flemish artist Quinten Massys might well be one of the Renaissance’s most famous paintings. It is also one of the period’s most atypical.

The 1513 portrait “An Old Woman” by Flemish artist Quinten Massys might well be one of the Renaissance’s most famous paintings. It is also one of the period’s most atypical. With wrinkled ...