In the late 1870s, banker and art collector William Corcoran commissioned larger-than-life Carrara marble sculptures of some ...

Perhaps the most singular work acquired is Self-Portrait as Saint Catherine of Alexandria (around 1624-26), a rediscovered painting by Virginia Vezzi (1600-38), an undersung figure in the art ...

Kunstmuseum Basel is analysing the work, which has been in its collection since 1945 and may have been painted by the ...

One of the most iconic and expressive self-portraits is ‘The Desperate Man’ by Gustave Courbet. Courbet paints himself as a young man, his eyes wide in surprise, and his hands on his head ...

appear as hefty as a watermelon), his self-portraits, scattered throughout, are the most customarily revealing and powerful things on display. In them, the artist reconfigures himself as a puffy ...

This exhibition features thirty-five photographs—self-portraits or portraits of other artists—which reflect radically new propositions for what a portrait might be. They foreground the idea that ...

But that is exactly what researchers found staring back at them when they subjected the Dutch ... Baroque artist's work undertaken in 2019 revealed that she began the work as a self-portrait ...

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 hidden self-portrait by Vincent van Gogh has ... one of the most important and popular artists in the world.” The Dutch master often re-used canvases to save money, turning them around to ...

A pair of paintings by Dutch Golden Age master Frans Hals, possibly depicting his own children, are returning to the ...