How to Look at and Understand Great Art

Self-Portraits—How Artists See Themselves

S1 • E19    Dec 31, 2010
Across the centuries, self-portraits fascinatingly reveal the changing role of the artist. Follow this progression, from Renaissance painters subtly placing themselves within large compositions, to self-portraiture's emergence as a major form of self-revelation, noting many dramatic and colorful traditions within the form.

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  • Sharon Latchaw HirshSelf

 

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