(in chronological order)
Albrecht Dürer:
Self-portrait as an Ecce Homo, c.1500
Leonardo da Vinci:
Self-portrait, c.1512
Rembrandt van Rijn:
Self-portrait, 1659
Vincent van Gogh:
Self-portrait with bandaged ear, 1889
Pablo Picasso:
Self-portrait, 1901
Egon Schiele:
Self-portrait, 1911
Max Beckmann:
Self-portrait with glass of champagne, 1919
Frida Kahlo:
The broken column (Self-portrait), 1944
Francis Bacon:
Self-portrait, 1971
Jean-Michelle Basquiat:
Self-portrait, 1982
REMBRANDT VAN RIJN
“Self-portrait”, 1659
oil on canvas, 52.7- 42.7 cm., Edinburgh , National Gallery of Scotland (on loan from a private collection)
Rembrandt is the great master of the Dutch painting, and along with Velázquez the most important painter of the 17th century. He is also the great master of the self-portrait of all time: Rembrandt painted himself in more than fifty canvases and drawings, giving us not only an exceptional testimony of his matchless talent as a portrayer, but also a fascinating “painted autobiography”. The artist depicted himself young and old, laughing and shouting, surprised and quiet. This canvas, painted when the artist was over 50 years old, is arguably the best self-portrait ever created, a honest, sincere and ruthless portrait of an artist who had never shown mercy to himself