Parution : Alison Manges Nogueira (ed.), « Hidden Faces. Covered Portraits of the Renaissance », New Heaven, Yale University Press, 2024
Highlighting the creativity and symbolism of covered portraits, this volume explores an intriguing but largely unknown aspect of Italian and Northern European Renaissance art Contributions by Maryan Wynn Ainsworth, Andrea Bayer, Carmen C. Bambach, Angelica Dülberg, Shirin Fozi, Wolfram Koeppe, Sarah E. Lawrence, Joanna Sheers Seidenstein, Femke Spielberg, Delphine Tonglet, Joshua Waterman and Catherine Whistler Many small Renaissance portraits were richly adorned with covers or backs bearing allegorical figures, mythological scenes, or emblems that celebrated...