The Renaissance Portrait From Donatello to Bellini December 21, 2011

It has been said that the Renaissance witnessed the rediscovery of the individual. Certainly portraiture assumed a new importance, whether it was to record the features of a family member for future generations, celebrate a prince or warrior, extol the beauty of a woman, or make possible the exchange of a likeness among friends. This exhibition will bring together paintings, medals, drawings and sculpture that testify to the new vogue for and uses of portraiture in fifteenth-century Italy.