Art & Exhibitions The Met’s New Show Brings Together Renaissance Portraits That Aren’t What They Seem. Artists used the back of canvases, hinges, panels and codes to reveal secret messages.

Crisp fall days, a Victorian oil portrait, an antique wooden desk, shelves of books lit by warm lamplight, old maps, an ironed blazer, a Renaissance engraving of a skull—as disparate as these ...

Try Renaissance marriage portraits Be grateful you weren’t an adolescent girl in 15th-century Florence – a new exhibition documents the era’s impossible beauty standards Save ...

Portraits in the Renaissance era didn’t just hang on walls, but were often concealed behind painted panels, shutters, or contained in boxes. “Hidden Faces” at the Metropolitan Museum of Art ...

Expert Rediscovers Painting by Renaissance Master Lavinia Fontana, ... As Costamagna perused the museum’s storage rooms, a dark piece called Portrait of a Gentleman, ...