Today, we think of Renaissance portraiture ... side a delicately rendered male deer in a chained collar — a symbol of fidelity. Alongside its companion portrait, of a woman in a white headscarf ...

On view through July 7, the Metropolitan Museum of Art’s Hidden Faces: Covered Portraits of the Renaissance explores ... the image of a scantily clad male form, a woodland creature common ...

as men are usually assigned to the lefthand side of Renaissance portrait diptychs to signify their power. The male subject in Massys’s “Portrait of an Old Man” is situated on the righthand ...

Whitewashing of Renaissance history has led many ... managed to break through the ranks in a mostly male field. Sofonisba Anguissola, Self-Portrait, circa 1556–57 Lancut Castle Museum In the ...

“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 ...

Perhaps it is true, for instance, that the profile portrait implies male control over its subject. But where does that leave the fact that Renaissance husbands were also painted in profile?

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 ...

Eileen Travell Today, we think of Renaissance portraiture as paintings ... features on its reverse side a delicately rendered male deer in a chained collar — a symbol of fidelity. Alongside its ...