It’s difficult to imagine a time when images of our faces were not only rare and expensive, but treated almost as sacred objects. But in 15th- and 16th-century Europe, portraits were often obscured ...

The Metropolitan Museum of Art is opening a new exhibition featuring Renaissance paintings titled "Hidden Faces: Covered Portraits of the Renaissance" in New York City on Monday. The exhibit, which ...

In their naturalism and immediacy, Renaissance portraits communicate to us across time. But as the Metropolitan Museum of Art’s exhibition “Hidden Faces: Covered Portraits of the Renaissance” ...

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

Half a millennium ago, the Protestant rebel priest Martin Luther sent out a number of small paintings as a marital announcement with political implications. He’d commissioned German painter Lucas ...

“Hidden Faces: Covered Portraits of the Renaissance,” a new exhibition at the Metropolitan Museum of Art, will be the first ever to showcase the history of a peculiar and little-known practice of ...

The first person we encounter on entering the intriguingly titled “Hidden Faces: Covered Portraits of the Renaissance,” in the Metropolitan Museum of Art’s Lehman Wing, is well-known to anyone who ...