Self Portrait

A Self-portrait is a depiction of an artiste, haggard, tinted, or sculpt by the artist. Even though self-portraits have been made by artist since the earliest period, it is not until the Early resurgence in the mid 1400s that artists can be often identified portraying themselves as either the main issue, or as imperative characters in their art work.

With improved and cheaper mirror, and the advent of the panel portrayal, many painter, sculptors as well as printmakers tried a few self-portraiture. The plausible example by Jan van Eyck of 1433 is the first known panel self-portrait. He tinted a separate picture of his wife, and he belong to the public that had begun to commission portrait, already more general among rich Netherlanders when compared to south of the Alps. The genre is esteemed, but not until the resurgence, with improved wealth and curiosity in the entity as a subject, did it become really popular.