Renaissance Self-Portraiture: The Visual Construction of Identity and the Social Status of the Artist

by Joanna Woods-Marsden

This lavishly illustrated book is the first to explore the genesis and early development of self portraiture during the Renaissance in Italy. Woods-Marsden argues that artists represented themselves on canvas in an effort to change both the status of art and their own social standing.

Genres: Art History, History

296 pages, Hardcover

First published November 10, 1998

Reviews

[kylee]

I skipped a good amount of chapters but, to be fair, this was a source for a paper mainly focused on female self-portraitists, which are only mentioned near the end for a few chapters. give me a break