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Jan 1, 1420
Masaccio
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Completition Date: 1420
Media: Painting, Fresco
Gallery: Italy
This painting is significant because it shows a very early self-portrait. -
Jan 1, 1550
Self-Portrait
Artist: Lucas Cranach the Elder
Completion Date: 1550
Place of Creation: Germany
Style: Northern Renaissance
Genre: self-portrait This self-portrait is significant because in comparsion to the previous portrait is shows the development of the 'selfie'.
Technique: oil
Material: wood
Dimensions: 64 x 49 cm
Gallery: Galleria degli Uffizi, Florence, Italy -
Portrait of the Artist with his Wife Isabella de Wolff in a Tavern
Artist: Gabriel Metsu
Completion Date: 1661
Style: Baroque
Genre: self-portrait
Technique: oil This self-portrait is significant because it shows a self-portrait with more than one person which shows artists are further developing the self-portrait
Material: panel
Dimensions: 36 x 31 cm
Gallery: Gemäldegalerie Alte Meister, Dresden, Germany -
Self-Portrait
Artist: William Hogarth
Completion Date: 1745
Style: Rococo
Genre: self-portrait
Technique: oil This self-portrait is significant because it shows the artist experimenting the self-portrait style; with a dog
Material: canvas
Dimensions: 90 x 70 cm
Gallery: Tate Gallery, London, UK -
Self-Portrait
Artist: Taras Shevchenko
Completion Date: 1841
Style: Romanticism
Genre: self-portrait This self-portrait is significant because it shows the artist testing out new extreme colours; the ghostly white. Also the artist is using a circular fram which makes the viewer focus on the facial expressions of the artist. -
Self-Portrait
Artist: Vasily Tropinin
Completion Date: 1844
Style: Romanticism
Genre: self-portrait
Technique: oil
This self-portrait s different to others because the artist is experimenting and in this self-portrait he also paints an extensively backdrop.
Material: canvas
Gallery: Russian Museum, St. Petersburg, Russia -
Self-Portrait
Artist: Henri Rousseau
Completion Date: 1890
Style: Naïve Art (Primitivism)
Genre: self-portrait
Technique: oil This self-portrait is significant because similarly to the previous image, the artist has included a very detailed backdrop which makes the self-portrait look more like a regular painting than a self-portrait
Material: canvas
Dimensions: 113 x 146 cm
Gallery: Národni Galerie, Prague, Czech Republic -
Self-Portrait
Artist: Felix Vallotton
Completion Date: 1914
Style: Magic Realism
Genre: self-portrait
Technique: oil
Material: canvas
This self-portrait is significant because it depicts the artist in their natural behaviour. you can tell this because the artist is not looking at you but at something else. Something else that is significant about this image is how his coat is very simple whilst his facial features are not.
Dimensions: 81 x 65 cm
Gallery: Musée Cantonal des Beaux-Arts, Lausanne, Switzerland -
Self-Portrait
Artist: Stanley Spencer
Completion Date: 1951
Style: Neo-Romanticism
Genre: self-portrait
This self-portrait is significant because it shows the artist trying a new style of self-portrait; using Neo-Romanatisicism. -
Self-Portrait
Artist: Francesco Clemente
Completion Date: 2005
Style: Transavantgarde
Genre: self-portrait
This self-portrait is very significant because the style that the artist is using is very unusual, it compares humans to pigs which is very weird.
