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Example or alter ego? : aspects of the portrait historié in Western art from Antiquity to the present / edited by Volker Manuth, Rudie van Leeuwen, Jos Koldewij

Introduction. Part I. Assimilation and deification in the classical portrait historié. From Phidias to Constantine: The Portrait Historié in Classical Antiquity (Stephan T.A.M. Mols, Eric M. Moormann, ...
Smithsonian Magazine

Pennsylvania Museum Discovers Unidentified Rembrandt Portrait in Its Collection

In 1961, the Allentown Art Museum in Pennsylvania acquired a 17th-century portrait of a rosy-cheeked woman dressed in fine fabrics and delicate jewelry. The work was initially attributed to Rembrandt ...
Archaeology

At Face Value

A painting of a woman on lime wood is one of the mummy portraits being studied by researchers using special camera filters under different light wavelengths (left to right: visible, ultraviolet, and ...
Hyperallergic

Lavinia Fontana, the Self-Fashioned Painter

Lavinia Fontana, "Portrait of a Pregnant Woman, Possibly a Self-Portrait" (c. 1592–1604), 44 x 34 5/8 inches, held in private collection (image via Wikimedia Commons) Possibly because of the absence ...