Growing up in the shadow of the Italian Renaissance, he was trained in ... Doctor or grifter, Watteau’s self-portrait remains in character, reinforcing the dissonance between ensemble and ...

A woman battering her own image with one self-portrait after another ... This is a well-known convention, but the devil is in the details, as the saying goes. Renaissance painters (including women ...

which boasts a remarkable collection of art ranging from Renaissance masterpieces to works by Édouard Manet and Vincent van Gogh’s famous self-portrait with a bandaged ear. Also read The Role ...