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Self-portrait

Self-portraits are portraits artists make of themselves. Although self-portraits have been made since the earliest times, it is not until the mid-15th century that artists can be frequently identified depicting themselves, as either the main subject or important characters in their work. With better and cheaper mirrors, and the advent of the panel…

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related to European art · 70
Self-portrait → Abbot, Adoration, Among, Andrea Mantegna, Archbishop, Baptisterio, Benozzo Gozzoli, Bondone, Boston, Brancacci Chapel, By, Canterbury, Castle, Christ, Dunstan, Eadwine, England, Eyck, Florence, Fourteenth-century
related to Women painters · 66
Self-portrait → Academy, Adélaïde Labille-Guiard, Alice Neel, Allegory, Almost, American, Ancien Régime, Angelica Kauffman, Artemisia Gentileschi, At, Bashkirtseff's, Bologna, Caterina, Clavichord, Cremona, Double Self-Portrait, Dressing-Table, Elisabeth Vigée Le Brun, England, English
related to Gallery · 65
Self-portrait → Aivazovsky, Art, Artist, Bryullov, Copenhagen, Courbet, CrucifixionSalvator Rosa, Cézanne, Degas, DenmarkPierre-Auguste Renoir, Detail, Eakins, El Greco, Francisco Zurbarán, Freer Gallery, Gogh, Goya, Hat, Henri Fantin-Latour, Isabella Brant
related to Gallery: painters at work · 53
Self-portrait → Aberdeen Art GalleryVincent, AntwerpPierre Mignard, Artist, ArtsJames Sant, Baptiste-Siméon Chardin, Boccioni, Brushes, Castro, Courbet, December, Detroit Institute, Elder, Eyck, Fałat, February, Francesco Solimena, François Boucher, Gallery, George Desmarées, Gogh
related to Non-English · 50
Self-portrait → Abbeville Press, Adam Biro, Annegret Soltau, Artists' Self-portraits, Autoportraits, Bernard Auriol, Calabrese, Claude, David, Der Künstler, Exhibition, French, Gegenwart, Geneva, Germany, Hrsg, ISBN, Kathrin Schmidt, Kunstwerk, L'Album
related to Further reading · 47
Self-portrait → Art Gallery, Cambridge University Press, Chicago/London, Ciofalo, Contemporary, Egypt, Five Hundred Self-Portraits, Frances Borzello, Francisco Goya, German Renaissance Art, Hudson, ISBN, Jonathan Miller, Julian Bell, Leo Koerner, Liz Rideal, London, London/New York, Lucie-Smith, Mauritshuis
related to Renaissance and Baroque · 45
Self-portrait → Also, Artemisia Gentileschi's La Pittura, Athens, Bacchus, Baroque, Bartholomew, Cambio, Cana, Caravaggio, Caravaggio's, Collegio, David, Dürer's, Finally, Galleria Borghese, Gentileschi's, Giorgione, Goliath, Italian, Johan Gregor
related to Other meanings, storytelling · 41
Self-portrait → According, Alfred Bruyas, Alice Neel, Andy Warhol, Arshile Gorky, Besides Diego Velázquez, Bonjour, Bray, Charles, Cindy Sherman, Compare Caravaggio, Contemporary, Cristofano Allori, France, George, Gilbert, Gogh, Gustave Courbet, Head, Holofernes
related to Gallery: mortality in the self-portrait · 33
Self-portrait → Allegory, Anthony, Bartholomew, Bray, By, Caravaggio David, Cleopatra, Doctor Arrieta, Flesh, Future, Galleria Borghese, Goliath, Goya, He, Hippolyte Bayard, Jan, London, Lovis Corinth, Michelangelo, Michelangelo Buonarroti
related to Mirrors and poses · 30
Self-portrait → Artistic, Claesz, Courbet, Europe, Frick, Gala, Glass Ball, He, In, Jo, Johannes Gumpp, L'Atelier, Mirrors, Moral Life, Most, Musée, OrsayErnst Oppler, Parmigianino, Real Allegory, Rembrandt's

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Self-portraitrelated to After RembrandtIn Spain0.60section
Self-portraitrelated to After RembrandtBartolomé Estéban Murillo0.60section
Self-portraitrelated to After RembrandtDiego Velázquez0.60section
Self-portraitrelated to After RembrandtFrancisco0.60section
Self-portraitrelated to After RembrandtZurbarán0.60section
Self-portraitrelated to After RembrandtLuke0.60section
Self-portraitrelated to After RembrandtEvangelist0.60section
Self-portraitrelated to After RembrandtChrist0.60section
Self-portraitrelated to After RembrandtIn0.60section
Self-portraitrelated to After RembrandtGoya0.60section
Self-portraitrelated to After RembrandtFrench0.60section
Self-portraitrelated to After RembrandtNicolas Poussin0.60section

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