AHS158 Midterm

Jan van Eyck

Leal Souvenir-1413

Agnolo Bronzino

Andrea Doria as Neptune-1545

Andrea Mantegna

Self-portrait bsut on his tomb- 1490 CA.

Petrus christus

Portrait of a christian monk-1446

Johannes Gump

Artist in the act of painting his self-portrait-1646

titan

Self-portrait-1566

Carlo Dolci

Double self-portrait- 1674

Unknown painter—The painter Marcia Painting her self-portrait

Illustration for Boccaccio’s Treatise '“on famous women' —1402

Raphael

self-portrait with a friend—1518

Michelangelo

Self-Portrait as the Flayed Skin of Saint Bartholomew, in: The Last Judgment (Sistine Chapel, Vatican City)—1536-41

B. E. Murillo

Self-Portrait in Frame—1674

Albrecht Dürer

Self Portrait in the Pose of Jesus Christ—1500

Sofonisba Anguissola

Self Portrait at the Easel with Devotional Panel—1556

Leon Battista Alberti

Self-portrait with Flying Eye—1435

Diego Velazquez

Self-Portrait in the painting Las Meninas (The Maids of Honor)—1656

Peter Paul Rubens

Self-Portrait with his First Wife–1610

Leonardo da Vinci

Self Portrait—1512

Jean Fouquet

Miniature Self- Portraiture—1450

Sandro Botticelli

Adoration of the Magi with Botticelli’s Self-Portrait—1475

Lorenzo Ghiberti and his Son

Self-Portraits on the Gates of Paradise, Florence Baptistery

1425-52

Deus Artifex (God as the ultimate artist)

- Idea of God as artist, creator of mankind, and as architect of the

Universe

- Biblical Genesis as the ur-act of creative activity

- According to the bible, God created man in his own image, which

makes man a type of self-portrait of the creator

- In the Renaissance, artists compared their own creative acts and

artworks to the Divine Creation to elevate the status of their

profession and emphasize their creativity and their skill in

mimetically reproducing man and nature in their works of art

- In consequence, the idea of the divino artista, the divine artist,

emerged.

Acheiropoieton (images not made by human hand)

(singular: acheiropoieton, from Greek = not

handmade) --- also called ‘Icons Not Made by Hand’

Acheiropoieta are a particular kind of icon which are alleged to

have come into existence miraculously, not created by a human

painter.

They became especially venerated and authoritative because they

were ‘true’ images, without any artistic intervention. They were

original and authentic, and they were mostly images of the face

and body of Jesus Christ.

The most notable examples are the Veil of Veronica and the

Shroud of Turin.

Saint Luke painting the Madonna

 Devotional subject in Medieval and Renaissance Art showing Mary

with the Christ Child on her lap, often copying or referring to an

early Christian icon in Rome: the SALUS POPULI ROMANI

• The Salus Populi Romani (= the salvation of the Roman people) is

the supposedly original portrait painting of Mary, mother of Christ,

who sat for the Apostle Luke during her lifetime. It represents the

Christian ur-scene of portrait painting.

• Christian Icons such as the Salus Populi Romani were believed to

be painted from the live subject and thus had particular spiritual

powers.

• Luke became the patron Saint of painters and their guilds.

• Saint Luke’s Madonna became popular during the Renaissance to

show the artist’s potential of creating an authentic, mimetic image

of a sitter, and the power such images have.