See my self-portrait created for my painting midterm and the surprising results! This video showcases the creative process, techniques, and final masterpiece, perfect for art students, aspiring ...

What’s the deal with Leonardo’s harpsichord-viola? Why were Impressionists obsessed with the color purple? Art Bites brings you a surprising fact, lesser-known anecdote, or curious event from art ...

In mid-January 1889, three weeks after mutilating his ear, Van Gogh painted two astonishing self-portraits, depicting himself with a prominent bandage, covering his mutilated ear. The famous one is in ...

Lucy Jones painted her first nude self-portrait at 50. She was in New York with her husband Peter Leach, she said, when he “took a picture of my backside. I thought, ‘Well I don’t look too bad from ...

Painter and Model, Celia Paul, 2012. Celia Paul cried throughout her first sessions modeling for Lucian Freud. “The experience of being naked disarmed me,” Paul writes in her new memoir, Self-Portrait ...

Artists have painted self-portraits since at least as long ago as 1433, when Jan van Eyck painted a man with a severe gaze in a red headdress, generally agreed to represent the creator himself. That ...

The painting measures less than 15 inches tall and just over 5 inches wide. The verso of the panel includes part of a Marian prayer. Sotheby's New York A tiny portrait of Mary Magdalene by Raphael has ...

Brenda Goodman, "Self-Portrait 4" (1994), oil on panel, 64 x 60 inches (all images © Brenda Goodman, courtesy Sikkema Jenkins & Co., New York) Brenda Goodman has ...

A conservator at the National Galleries of Scotland uncovered the painting on the back of another one by the Dutch artist. By Nina Siegal AMSTERDAM — There were 35 known self-portraits of Vincent van ...

When looking at a painting of a historical figure, it’s hard not to wonder whether the person actually looked like their portrait or if there was some "ye olde filtering" involved. Luckily, a few well ...