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Hidden Faces: Covered Portraits of the Renaissance

Hidden Faces: Covered Portraits of the Renaissance

Bayer, Andrea
Nogueira, Alison Manges
Ainsworth, Maryan Wynn

Hardcover

Art HistoryGeneral Art

Publisher Price: $50.00

ISBN10: 1588397750
ISBN13: 9781588397751
Publisher: Metropolitan Museum of Art New York
Published: Apr 30 2024
Pages: 232
Weight: 2.77
Height: 1.01 Width: 8.76 Depth: 10.31
Language: English
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

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The Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York

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