Hidden Faces – Covered Portraits of the Renaissance - Carmen C. Bambach, Alison Manges Nogueira, Maryan Wynn Ainsworth, Angelica Dülberg, Andrea Ba

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... Zobrazit více