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  2. Self-portraiture - Wikipedia

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    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 ...

  3. Self-portraits by Rembrandt - Wikipedia

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    c. 1630 (Walker Art Gallery, Liverpool) The Liverpool Self-Portrait is transitional between a study of expression, a tronie, and a conventional head-and-shoulders 'portrait of the artist'. Self-Portrait in Oriental Costume with Poodle (1631-1633) Last self-portrait produced in his hometown and only full-length self-portrait.

  4. Portraiture in ancient Egypt - Wikipedia

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    Nefertiti bust, from the 18th dynasty, New kingdom Egyptian death mask from the 18th dynasty. Louvre, Paris portrait of Meritamun, 19th dynasty of Egypt. Portraiture in ancient Egypt forms a conceptual attempt to portray "the subject from its own perspective rather than the viewpoint of the artist ... to communicate essential information about the object itself". [1]

  5. Self-portrait - Wikipedia

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    In the earliest surviving examples of medieval and Renaissance self-portraiture, historical or mythical scenes (from the Bible or classical literature) were depicted using a number of actual persons as models, often including the artist, giving the work a multiple function as portraiture, self-portraiture and history/myth painting. In these ...

  6. Self representation - Wikipedia

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    Self representation may refer to: Self-image; Self-portrait; Pro se legal representation in the United States; Litigant in person, self-representation in a court in the UK; Self-representation (politics), a movement to encourage people in minorities to represent their own interests; Self-representation (culture), the way we represent ourselves ...

  7. Representation (arts) - Wikipedia

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    Representation has been associated with aesthetics (art) and semiotics (signs). Mitchell says "representation is an extremely elastic notion, which extends all the way from a stone representing a man to a novel representing the day in the life of several Dubliners". [1] The term 'representation' carries a range of meanings and interpretations.

  8. Thomas Smith (American painter) - Wikipedia

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    Self-portrait of Smith (c.1680), Worcester Art Museum Unknown man, oil on canvas, from 17th century colonial America, attributed to Thomas Smith. Thomas Smith (c. 1650 –1691) was an artist, sailor and slave trader in colonial New England.

  9. Self-insertion - Wikipedia

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    Self-insertion is a literary device in which the author writes themselves into the story under the guise of, or from the perspective of, a fictional character. [1] The character, overtly or otherwise, behaves like, has the personality of, and may even be described as physically resembling the author of the work.