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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, ...
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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 ...
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Brenda Goodman's Fearless Self-Portraits

Brenda Goodman, "Self-Portrait 4" (1994), oil on panel, 64 x 60 inches (all images © Brenda Goodman, courtesy Sikkema Jenkins & Co., New York) Brenda Goodman has ...
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Delicately Balancing Psychoanalysis and Art History in a Van Gogh Exhibition

Popular perceptions of van Gogh are often preoccupied with heart-wrenching accounts of mental illness, but Van Gogh: Self Portraits avoids speculative psychoanalytic readings of one tortured face ...