In this era of blockbuster shows, the permanent collections of the Metropolitan frequently become what we walk past on the way out of the latest event, so it’s good to be reminded of how remarkable ...

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 ...

“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 ...

In September 1503 in Treviso, a city in northern Italy, Bishop Bernardo de’Rossi escaped assassination when a plot on his life was foiled. His reforms, which shifted power back to the church and away ...

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 ...

A new exhibition at the Met is the first to examine the tradition of covered 15th- and 16th-century portraits, which were designed to be interactive and often portable Meilan Solly - Senior Associate ...

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