Curatorial Tour of Hidden Faces: Covered Portraits of the Renaissance

The Americas Chapter is delighted to invite you to

a curatorial tour of Hidden Faces: Covered Portraits of the Renaissance

with Alison Nogueira, The Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York

Friday, June 14 at 10:15am

Revelatory in multiple senses of the word, Hidden Faces: Covered Portraits of the Renaissance displays the hidden sides of paintings from northern and southern Europe during the fifteenth and sixteenth centuries. How these portraits were displayed and experienced is deeply implicated in cultures of collecting both north and south of the Alps. The messages encoded in the symbols and iconography act as a secret language to be translated.

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Dr. Alison Nogueira, Curator, Robert Lehman Collection, joined the department in 2010. She is a specialist in the Italian Renaissance and has curated many exhibitions, including Italian Renaissance Drawings in the Robert Lehman Collection. She has been able to bring back together several long-separated covers and their portraits.

Image: Attributed to Giorgio Vasari and Workshop (1511-1574) Tabernacle Mirror Frame with Two Sliding Covers, ca. 1572. Walnut and glass. The Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York, Robert Lehman Collection (1975.1.2090)