This was another modern flourish, given that he appears as the painter (previously unseen in official royal portraiture) and standing close to the King's family group who were the supposed main subjects of the painting.
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The Van Eyck painting may have inspired Diego Velázquez to depict himself in full view as the painter creating Las Meninas (1656), as the Van Eyck hung in the palace in Madrid where he worked. In the famous Arnolfini Portrait (1434), Jan van Eyck is probably one of two figures glimpsed in a mirror – a surprisingly modern conceit. Many artistic media have been used apart from paintings, drawings and prints have been especially important. This culminated in the 17th century with the work of Jan de Bray.
Rubens's The Four Philosophers (1611–12) is a good example. In these works, the artist usually appears as a face in the crowd or group, often towards the edges or corner of the work and behind the main participants. In the earliest surviving examples of medieval and Renaissance self-portraiture, historical or mythical scenes (from the Bible or classical literature) were depicted using a number of actual persons as models, often including the artist, giving the work a multiple function as portraiture, self-portraiture and history/myth painting. Such paintings were not intended publicly to depict the actual persons as themselves, but the facts would have been known at the time to artist and patron, creating a talking point as well as a public test of the artist's skill. Many painters are said to have included depictions of specific individuals, including themselves, in painting figures in religious or other types of composition. Pieter Claesz, Vanitas with Violin and Glass Ball (detail), the artist is visible in the reflection, 1625.Ī self-portrait may be a portrait of the artist, or a portrait included in a larger work, including a group portrait. The unprecedented number of self-portraits by Rembrandt, both as paintings and prints, made clear the potential of the form, and must have further encouraged the trend.
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If nothing else, they avoided the need to arrange for a model, and for the many professional portrait-painters, a self-portrait kept in the studio acted as a demonstration of the artist's skill for potential new clients. They were also sometimes given as gifts to family and friends. Printed portraits of artists had a market, and many were self-portraits. īy the Baroque period, most artists with an established reputation at least left drawings of themselves. The genre is venerable, but not until the Renaissance, with increased wealth and interest in the individual as a subject, did it become truly popular. He painted a separate portrait of his wife, and he belonged to the social group that had begun to commission portraits, already more common among wealthy Netherlanders than south of the Alps.
Portrait of a Man in a Turban by Jan van Eyck of 1433 may well be the earliest known panel self-portrait. With better and cheaper mirrors, and the advent of the panel portrait, many painters, sculptors and printmakers tried some form of self-portraiture. Although self-portraits have been made since the earliest times, it is not until the Early Renaissance in the mid-15th century that artists can be frequently identified depicting themselves as either the main subject, or as important characters in their work. In reality, she probably did not wear expensive clothes like these while painting.Ī self-portrait is a representation of an artist that is drawn, painted, photographed, or sculpted by that artist.
Self-portrait by Judith Leyster, a Dutch Golden Age painter, mostly of genre subjects.
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