William Kentridge, the renowned South African artist, began to film himself in his studio during the coronavirus pandemic ...

Works from the Pennsylvania Academy of the Fine Arts illustrate a nation's uneasy progress through the lens of one of the ...

While the pilot of the Balloon Shadow Selfie remains anonymous to the public, other U-2 self portrait artists have attached their names to the photos they've snapped in the high-altitude jet. In ...

Commissioned portraits, therefore, should enter the discussion, since there are far fewer historical self-portraits than portraits. Until the 18 th century, ...

Self portraits in history. Since time immemorial, humans have used art, skills, and creativity to send out messages. From the early caveman who drew a boar and running humans to indicate danger, ...

Persona: Exploring Self-Portraiture will premiere at the Forest Lawn Museum in Glendale on Saturday, April 26. It will feature the work of more than 20 contemporary artists as well as historical ...

These faces aren’t from history books – they are self-portraits of renowned photographer Samuel Fosso, and they have earned him this year’s Deutsche Börse Photography Foundation Prize.

Van Eyck, who loved to experiment and try new things, flourished. And in painting his own image, van Eyck opened the way to one of the most fascinating genres in the whole of art history.

What is the oldest portrait we have here at the National Portrait Gallery? Around 1616, 1615, we have some engravings. They're actually part of a book to document rulers from William the Conqueror ...

Rembrandt van Rijn produced the largest number of self-portraits of any major painter in history. Although there is today controversy about attribution of previously designated Rembrandt paintings ...

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 ...