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Artemisia Gentileschi (1593-1653) was an Italian Baroque painter, born in Rome at the dawn of the Baroque era. She trained under her father,

Self-Portrait Tiziano Vecellio (Titian)

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Tiziano Vecellio (Titian) - Self-Portrait

Staatliche Museen (Berlin, Germany)

The Venus of Urbino was painted for Guidobaldo della Rovere, the heir of Francesco Maria della Rovere, Duke of Urbino. If the pose of this Venus brings to mind that of Giorgione's Sleeping Venus in Dresden (which the young Titian had completed after Giorgione's death) the intent of the painting is q...

Self-Portrait as the Allegory of Painting (detail)Artemisia Gentileschi

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Artemisia Gentileschi - Self-Portrait as the Allegory of Painting (detail)

Royal Collection (Windsor, United Kingdom)

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Self Portrait with a Friend Raphael (Raffaello Sanzio Da Urbino)

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Raphael (Raffaello Sanzio Da Urbino) - Self Portrait with a Friend

The Game of Chess Giulio Campi

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Palazzo Madama (Torino, Italy)

This painting may conceal allegorical themes and portraits of real people (the figure of the buxom woman might allude to Venus, and that of the man-at-arms to Mars) and thus to a wedding event, but the interplay of glances, gestures, and allusions might suggest a group portrait: the melancholy young...

Self Portrait as Saint Catherine of Alexandria Artemisia Gentileschi

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Artemisia Gentileschi - Self Portrait as Saint Catherine of Alexandria

National Gallery (London, United Kingdom)

Artemisia Gentileschi, the most celebrated female artist of the seventeenth century, appears in the guise of Saint Catherine of Alexandria, a Christian saint martyred in the early fourth century. She leans on a broken wheel studded with iron spikes, to which she was bound and tortured, and which bec...

Mutter mit drei Kindern (Caritas)Ferdinand Bol

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Ferdinand Bol - Mutter mit drei Kindern (Caritas)

Picture Gallery Sanssouci (Potsdam, Germany)

Vor einem roten Samtvorhang sitzt eine in einem gelben Seidenkleid und einem gefütterten Mäntelchen gekleidete Frau und hält einen unbekleideten Säugling auf ihrem Schoß. Zwei weitere kleine Kinder drängen sich seitwärts an die Mutter. Was zunächst wie eine Darstellung einer Mutter und ihrer Kinder ...

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National Gallery (London, United Kingdom)

Self Portrait Saluting Edgar Degas

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Calouste Gulbenkian Foundation (Portugal)

Self Portrait, Facing Right Egon Schiele

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Egon Schiele - Self Portrait, Facing Right

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Self Portrait with the Idol Paul Gauguin

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Paul Gauguin - Self Portrait with the Idol

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Self portrait with spectacles Francisco De Goya

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Francisco De Goya - Self portrait with spectacles

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Self Portrait with a Clock In front of Crucifixion Marc Chagall

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Marc Chagall - Self Portrait with a Clock In front of Crucifixion

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Self Portrait Pierre-Auguste Renoir

Sterling and Francine Clark Art Institute (Williamstown, United States)

Self Portrait with the Yellow Christ Paul Gauguin

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Paul Gauguin - Self Portrait with the Yellow Christ

Christianity
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Men

Self Portrait Joaquin Sorolla Y Bastida

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Joaquin Sorolla Y Bastida - Self Portrait

Sorolla Museum (Madrid, Spain)

This is one of the eight self-portraits in the Museum. Dedicated to Clotilde like most of the others, it was painted at a very important point in the artist’s life. A few months earlier, in February 1909, Sorolla had held an individual exhibition at the Hispanic Society of America, which was acclaim...

Self-portrait as the Allegory of Painting (La Pittura)Artemisia Gentileschi

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Artemisia Gentileschi - Self-portrait as the Allegory of Painting (La Pittura)

Royal Collection (London, United Kingdom)

Artemisia Gentileschi was invited to London in 1638 by Charles I, and probably produced this sophisticated and accomplished self-portrait in England. She holds a brush in one hand and a palette in the other, cleverly identifying herself as the female personification of Painting - something her male ...

Self Portrait Pierre-Auguste Renoir

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Sterling and Francine Clark Art Institute (Williamstown, United States)

Self Portrait Nicolas Poussin

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This Self portrait is an oil on canvas painting by Nicolas Poussin. Poussin painted it around 1650. The painting shows Poussin in his workshop. This painting is now in the Musée du Louvre, Paris.

Self Portrait with Her Daughter, Julie Louise Elisabeth Vigée Le Brun

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Louise Elisabeth Vigée Le Brun - Self Portrait with Her Daughter, Julie

A Masterpiece of Rococo Art

Elisabeth-Louise Vigée-LeBrun's

Cubist Self-portrait Salvador Dali

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Museo Nacional Centro de Arte Reina Sofía (Madrid, Spain)

Cubist Self Portrait is an 1926 oil painting by Spanish surrealist painter Salvador Dalí, best known for the striking and bizarre images. The oil on canvas painting is drawn on Cubism style and based on self-portrait genre and is now housed at Museo Nacional Centro de Arte Reina Sofía, Madrid. The p...

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Gustave Courbet - The Cellist, Self Portrait

The Cellist, Self Portrait Gustave Courbet

Nationalmuseum (Stockholm, Sweden)

Portrait of Nicolas de Respaigne Peter Paul Rubens

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Peter Paul Rubens - Portrait of Nicolas de Respaigne

Staatliche Kunstsammlunen (Kassel, Germany)

Self Portrait (10)Vincent Van Gogh

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Fogg Art Museum (Cambridge, United States)

Self Portrait with a Grey Felt Hat Vincent Van Gogh

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Vincent Van Gogh - Self Portrait with a Grey Felt Hat