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 ...

"This book is published in conjunction with an exhibition presented by the Wheelwright Museum of the American Indian from November 2005 to April 2006 ... included self-portraits by forty-seven ...

For some artists, the self-portrait can become an obsession. Consider Renaissance master Albrecht Durer and the many times that he captured his own likeness, perhaps in an attempt to gauge the aging ...