If you think the selfie was born as a direct result of the cellphone, “Self-Portrait in a Convex Mirror,” painted just over 500 years ago by Francesco Mazzola, the Italian artist commonly ...

A new exhibition at the Met is the first to examine the tradition of covered 15th- and 16th-century portraits ... painted-over underdrawings, hidden self-portraits, even a giant skull designed ...

New research and conservation work on the 1533 portrait by Hans Holbein the Younger ... this would be Derich his very self. You would be in doubt whether the painter or his father made him.” ...

A recently discovered painting by the 16th-century artist Lavinia Fontana being offered at a Sotheby’s Old Master sale on Thursday is thought to be a self-portrait of the artist painted while ...

Sofonisba Anguissola painted more self-portraits than any Renaissance artist after Albrecht Dürer If you had six daughters in the 16th century, you had a problem. Dowries, after all, add up.

Lisa Gherardini, a 16th-century noblewoman from the Republic ... Others have even suggested that it’s a self-portrait of da Vinci himself. In the 2010s, researchers from the National Committee ...

It’s the satirical 16th Century portrait that inspired Sir John Tenniel’s illustration of The Duchess in Alice’s Adventures in Wonderland. But despite being dubbed ‘The Old Duchess’ for ...

I love the idea of a “veiled” self-portrait. That’s a show in itself ... but it is crucial to me that it was a 16th-century European woman who invented this genre! You’ve had a focus ...

It is somewhere between an autobiography and a photo book, with recollections and fragments of journal entries from childhood onward, positioned next to self-portraits spanning half a century.