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 ...

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 ...

The Met’s delightful show “Hidden Faces: Covered Portraits of the Renaissance” illuminates a curious trend in 15th- and 16th-century painting: the slow reveal.

There’s still a lot that we need to discover.” “Hidden Faces: Covered Portraits of the Renaissance” is on view at the Metropolitan Museum of Art in New York City through July 7.

Photo: Courtesy National Gallery of Art, Washington. “ Hidden Faces: Covered Portraits of the Renaissance “ is on view at the Metropolitan Museum of Art, 1000 5th Ave, New York, through July 7.

New York 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 ...

Very afraid. The Renaissance Portrait: From Donatello to Bellini Where: The Metropolitan Museum of Art, 1000 Fifth Ave. at 82nd Street, New York City When: Through March 18.

A version of this article appears in print on Jan. 9, 2023, Section C, Page 6 of the New York edition with the headline: Frick Acquires an Unusual Italian Renaissance Portrait.

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 ...

Another painting, a portrait of a man by the 15th-century painter Jacometto, features on its reverse side a delicately rendered male deer in a chained collar — a symbol of fidelity.