Hybrid: Hidden Faces: Covered Portraits of the Renaissance with Professor Thomas Germano

Program Type:

Art Lecture

Age Group:

Adults
Registration for this event will close on June 12, 2024 @ 2:00pm.
There are 89 seats remaining.

Program Description

Description

An intriguing but unknown side of Renaissance painting: multisided portraits where the sitter’s likeness was concealed by hinges or sliding covers within a box, or a dual-faced format. The covers and reverses of these small portraits were adorned with puzzlelike emblems, epigrams, allegories and mythologies that celebrated the sitter’s character. The viewer had to decode the meaning of the symbolic portrait before lifting, sliding, or turning the image over to unmask the face below. Join Professor Germano when he presents a visual lecture related to this unique exhibition at the Metropolitan Museum of Art.

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