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University of Saint Francis students master art of the self-portrait

The students’ self-portraits – examples in drawing, painting, photography and printmaking – focus mostly on their faces. Johnson said that’s a common approach because facial features are more intimate ...
The Art Newspaper

Why this rarely seen Van Gogh self-portrait deserves more attention

In mid-January 1889, three weeks after mutilating his ear, Van Gogh painted two astonishing self-portraits, depicting himself with a prominent bandage, covering his mutilated ear. The famous one is in ...
insider.si.edu

Example or alter ego? : aspects of the portrait historié in Western art from Antiquity to the present / edited by Volker Manuth, Rudie van Leeuwen, Jos Koldewij

Introduction. Part I. Assimilation and deification in the classical portrait historié. From Phidias to Constantine: The Portrait Historié in Classical Antiquity (Stephan T.A.M. Mols, Eric M. Moormann, ...