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A self-portrait of a colorless, but youthful, rounded oval face, in full-frontal view, emerges from a reddish-brown, textured, but indistinct background; the eyes of the face are open but the body belonging to the face is abstract, blurred by pencil strokes and the color of sepia ink; [1] the clothing worn by the subject is indistinguishable as it dissolves into the background with each pencil ...
This category is about Self-portraiture, or Autoportraiture: field of art theory and history that studies the history, means of production, circulation, reception, forms, and meanings of self-portraits
Self-Portrait or Portrait of an Old Man is an oil-on-canvas painting by El Greco, likely dating to between 1595 and 1600.The work's distinction as a self-portrait has been widely debated by scholars for over a century.
Master of Frankfurt, Saint Odile and Saint Cecilia, ca. 1503–1506, oil on panel, 113 x 67.9 cm (44 1/2 x 26 3/4 in.), Historical museum, Frankfurt.This painting, rendered in grisaille, forms part of the outer wings of the Altarpiece of St. Anne commissioned for the Dominican Church of Frankfurt circa 1504.
Lievens's self-portrait was exhibited at the National Gallery of Art in 2008 and 2009. In the exhibition brochure, titled Jan Lievens: A Dutch Master Rediscovered, American art historian Arthur K. Wheelock Jr. describes the self-portrait as "handsome and assured". He also stated the self-portrait revealed Lievens's "ability to evoke the essence ...
Corinth is believed to have painted the Self-Portrait with Skeleton in response to the Self-Portrait with Death Playing the Fiddle (1872), by the Swiss painter Arnold Böcklin, who was widely admired back then in Germany. Böcklin depicted the skeleton in his work as a live figure, he plays the violin while the artist listens to it.
Self Portrait, c. 1655. Oil on panel, 48.9 x 40.2 cm. Kunsthistorisches Museum. Self Portrait (or The Large Self-Portrait) [1] is an oil-on-canvas painting by the Dutch artist Rembrandt. Painted in 1652, it is one of more than 40 painted self-portraits by Rembrandt, and was the first he had painted since 1645. [2]
The Self-Portrait with a Friend (also known as Double Portrait and as Raphael and His Fencing Master [1]) is a painting by Italian High Renaissance painter Raphael. It dates to 1518–1520, [ 2 ] and is in the Louvre Museum of Paris , France .