Hidden Faces: Covered Portraits of the Renaissance

$50.00 at The Metropolitan Museum of Art.

A Met Museum catalogue is the perfect gift for art lovers. Edited by Alison Manges Nogueira 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…