As part of the series #ArbusMetSquad, Teen Studio participants Halina S., Kimberly S., and Nicole G. share the portraits they made inspired by the exhibition diane arbus: in the beginning.
Artists of the Moche cultures excelled at the creation of “portrait vessels,” so-called for their striking apparent resemblance to specific individuals.
Written by a team of international scholars, The Renaissance Portrait provides new insight into the early history of portraiture in Italy, examining in detail how its major art centers—Florence, the princely courts, and Venice—saw the rapid development of portraiture as closely linked to Renaissance society and politics, ideals of the individual, and concepts of beauty.
With less than a week left to visit Celebrating Tintoretto: Portrait Paintings and Studio Drawings, one of the exhibition's curators muses on the vibrant modernity and astonishing immediacy of Jacopo Tintoretto's small-scale portraits.
Patronage for miniatures extended beyond the court to include the political and merchant elite, eager to own and wear such stunning small portraits of loved ones.
Portraits and caricatures accounted for a significant percentage of the prints made for sale or as book illustrations. Ceramics, silhouettes, coins, medals, and waxes bore likenesses.
This exhibition is the first to examine an intriguing but largely unknown side—in the literal sense—of Renaissance painting: multisided portraits in which the sitter’s likeness was concealed by a hinged or sliding cover, within a box, or by a dual-…
