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The Portrait of Europa was painted by Lucia Anguissola possibly in the year after. Europa Anguissola is also identifiable as the child in the pencil drawing, Old Woman Studying the Alphabet with a Laughing Girl, today in the Uffizi, where the maid is also present, but older than the woman that appears in The Game of Chess.
Sofonisba Anguissola, Self-Portrait, 1610. The influence of Campi, whose reputation was based on portraiture, is evident in Anguissola's early works, such as the Self-Portrait (Florence, Uffizi). Her work was akin to the worldly tradition of Cremona, influenced greatly by the art of Parma and Mantua, in which even religious works were imbued ...
Self-Portrait is a small oil-on-panel painting by the Italian artist Sofonisba Anguissola, signed and dated 1554 on the open book held by the artist. [ 1 ] [ 2 ] [ 3 ] The portrait is now in the Kunsthistorisches Museum , in Vienna .
In The Game of Chess (1555) and Self-Portrait at a Spinet, the painter depicted female ability in playing chess or a musical instrument as an essential part of a young noble woman's education. [ 2 ] The Portrait of Elena Anguissola was in the collection of the Earl of Yaborough , remaining there until 1936, when it was acquired by the museum in ...
Self-portrait at an Easel is an oil-on-canvas painting created c. 1556–1565 by the Italian Renaissance painter Sofonisba Anguissola, now in Łańcut Castle. From the same era as Self-Portrait at a Spinet (Naples) it shows the artist painting a devotional canvas and is one of a group of self-portraits which also includes Self-Portrait (Vienna ...
Miniature Self-Portrait is the smaller of two known miniature self-portraits by skilled portraitist Sofonisba Anguissola (ca. 1532-1625) to survive. [1] Painted around 1556, this small oil on parchment on cardboard is set in a metal frame with a scroll surmount. [2]
A painting by Parmigianino in 1524 Self-portrait in a mirror, demonstrates the phenomenon. Mirrors permit surprising compositions like the Triple self-portrait by Johannes Gumpp (1646), or more recently that of Salvador Dalí shown from the back painting his wife, Gala (1972–73). This use of the mirror often results in right-handed painters ...
Las Meninas, painted in 1656, shows Diego Velázquez working at the easel to the left.. Self-portraiture has a long history. In Reynolds & Peter's analysis, the handprints that prehistoric humanity left in cave paintings can be considered precursors of the self-portrait, as they are a direct document of the author's presence in the creative act and his perception of the existence of a "self".