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Number one painting?
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self-portrait
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WordNet
Word definitions in WordNet
n. a portrait of yourself created by yourself
Douglas Harper's Etymology Dictionary
Word definitions in Douglas Harper's Etymology Dictionary
1821, from self- + portrait , translating German Selbstbildnis .
Wikipedia
Word definitions in Wikipedia
Self-Portrait , or Portrait of the Artist in a Redingote , is an 1835 oil-on-canvas painting by French romantic artist Théodore Chassériau , which was painted when the artist was 16. It is currently housed at the Musée du Louvre . One of the few self-portraits ...
Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English
Word definitions in Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English
noun EXAMPLES FROM CORPUS ▪ He provides a satisfying self-portrait , though not a particularly flattering one. ▪ If so, Parler's is the first self-portrait known in medieval art. ▪ In other words, they were painting journeys to the spirit world, not self-portraits. ...
Wiktionary
Word definitions in Wiktionary
n. The bust of an artist by the artist him/herself; a portrait of the painter who painted it.
Usage examples of self-portrait.
Alberti figure might be Donatello, but the man bears little resemblance to other suggested portraits of Donatello, while the resemblance to a known self-portrait of Alberti is quite strong.
For example, by Maaria Corti, an Italian researcher who agrees that the Shoroud image is a self-portrait of Leonardo, but prefers to ascribe his motives to his whish to identify with the sufferings of Jesus.
He campaigned largely at staged town meetings, where he interacted with carefully chosen voters, and managed to replace his once-vicious image with a benign, statesmanlike new self-portrait.
These Games were little dramas, in structure almost pure monologues, reflecting the imperiled but brilliant life of the author's mind like a perfect self-portrait.
It is as if Dieppe brought out the side of Sickert's face that is turned to the light in his Jekyll and Hyde self-portraits.
There's a famous self-portrait in Kenwood House, the best of the lot, according to him.
In one of his self-portraits he appears to be holding a paintbrush in his left hand, but it is an optical illusion created by his painting his reflection in a mirror.
Robins suspects that male cartoon figures with different hats and beards may be self-portraits of Sickert in Ripper disguises.
I had sent her many self-portraits, and snapshots taken by my mother, too.
Leonardo da Vinci, which we can prove by citing his most famous self-portrait, in which he depicted himself wearing a pyramid-shaped tinfoil hat.