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The Self Portrait of Italian baroque artist Artemisia Gentileschi was painted in the early 1630s. It currently hangs in the Palazzo Barberini, Rome. It is one of many paintings where Gentileschi depicts herself. Beyond self-portraits, her allegorical and religious paintings often featured herself in different guises.
Musée du Luxembourg (Paris) / Skira Editore (Milano), Exhibition catalogue. 2004, Text French, Paris 2004, ISBN 88-8491-854-5 The book presents 155 artist (fine art) of the 20th century by showing their self-portraits added by informative texts. Calabrese, Omar: Artists' Self-portraits. Abbeville Press, 2006, ISBN 9780789208941; Jeancolas ...
Self-Portrait as the Allegory of Painting, also known as Autoritratto in veste di Pittura or simply La Pittura, was painted by the Italian Baroque artist Artemisia Gentileschi. The oil-on-canvas painting measures 98.6 by 75.2 centimetres (38.8 in × 29.6 in) and was probably produced during Gentileschi's stay in England between 1638 and 1639.
Self-Portrait as Saint Catherine of Alexandria is a 1615–1617 painting by the Italian Baroque artist Artemisia Gentileschi, showing the artist in the guise of Catherine of Alexandria. It is now in the collection of the National Gallery, London , which purchased it in 2018 for £3.6 million, including about £2.7 million from its American ...
Self-portraiture, or Autoportraiture is the field of art theory and history that studies the history, means of production, circulation, reception, forms, and meanings of self-portraits. [ 1 ] [ 2 ] [ 3 ] Emerging in Antiquity and becoming popular from the Renaissance as an artistic practice, as a specific field of study, self-portraiture is ...
Sweerts made a mirror image reproduction of this self-portrait in an etching bearing the inscription Michael Sweerts Eq. Pi. et fe. In another self-portrait, probably painted about 1655, the artist points to a skull as a vanitas reminder. [25] Another presumed self-portrait is the Portrait of a young man (1656, Hermitage), which shows a young ...
Self-portrait (c. 1645), oil on canvas, 61 x 45 cm., (Musée des Beaux-Arts de Strasbourg) Portrait of Lucrezia Paolini (c. 1656 –60), oil on canvas, 66 x 50.5 cm., Galleria Nazionale d'Arte Antica. In 1640, Rosa met Lucrezia Paolini (c. 1620 –1696) in Florence. Lucrezia was a married woman, whose husband had left the city and abandoned her ...
The Self-Portrait as a Lute Player was created after Gentileschi was married and moved from Rome to Florence after a fourteen-month rape trial against Agostino Tassi. [9] [6] Self-Portrait as a Lute Player and other self-portraits of Gentileschi were painted for private collections and allowed her to express her wit and cultural knowledge. [6]