Hyperallergic

Painting for Oneself: On Peter Heinemann’s Self-Portraits

Peter Heinemann, “Head 1987” (1987) (all images courtesy National Academy of Design) Forty years passed between my first hearing about Peter Heinemann’s self-portraits and my actually getting a chance ...
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 ...
Artnet

10 Times Artists Hid Themselves in Their Paintings

Artists have painted self-portraits since at least as long ago as 1433, when Jan van Eyck painted a man with a severe gaze in a red headdress, generally agreed to represent the creator himself. That ...
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, ...