The Timken Museum of Art unveils Poetic Portraits: Allegory and Identity in Sixteenth-Century Europe, a landmark exhibition exploring the rich interplay of art, literature, and identity during the Renaissance. On view from November 3, 2025, through March 29, 2026, this exhibition brings together more than a dozen exceptional images that trace the impact of sixteenth-century art on ideas about portraiture. At the heart of the Poetic Portraits is a masterwork by Sofonisba Anguissola, one of the most celebrated women artists of the Renaissance. Her Portrait of Giovanni Battista Caselli, on loan from the Museo Nacional del Prado in Madrid, anchors the exhibition and is shown in the United States for the first time at the Timken.