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 ...

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 ...

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 ...