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1556 In Art
Events from the year 1556 in art. Events {{Empty section, date=July 2010 Works * Sofonisba Anguissola – ''Self-portrait at the easel'' * Jan Sanders van Hemessen – '' The Parable of the Unmerciful Servant'' Births *August 16 - Bartolomeo Cesi, Italian painter of the Bolognese School (died 1629) * October 24 - Giovanni Battista Caccini, Italian sculptor (died 1613) *''date unknown'' ** Giovanni Bizzelli, Italian painter (died 1612) **Aurelio Lomi, Italian painter of frescoes (died 1622) ** Carlo Maderno, Italian sculptor (died 1629) ** Alessandro Maganza, Italian Mannerist painter (died 1630) **Pietro Malombra, Italian painter (died 1618) **Lazzaro Tavarone, Genoese painter (died 1641) *''probable'' **Adrien de Vries, late Mannerist sculptor born in the Netherlands (died 1626) ** Otto van Veen, painter, draughtsman, and humanist (died 1629) Deaths *April - Cristofano Gherardi, Italian Mannerist painter (born 1508) * August 1 - Girolamo da Carpi, court painter and d ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Self-portrait At The Easel Painting A Devotional Panel By Sofonisba Anguissola
A self-portrait is a representation of an artist that is drawn, painted, photographed, or sculpted by that artist. Although self-portraits have been made since the earliest times, it is not until the Early Renaissance in the mid-15th century that artists can be frequently identified depicting themselves as either the main subject, or as important characters in their work. With better and cheaper mirrors, and the advent of the panel painting, panel portrait, many painters, sculptors and printmakers tried some form of self-portraiture. ''Portrait of a Man in a Turban'' by Jan van Eyck of 1433 may well be the earliest known panel self-portrait. He painted a separate portrait of his wife, and he belonged to the social group that had begun to commission portraits, already more common among wealthy Netherlanders than south of the Alps. The genre is venerable, but not until the Renaissance, with increased wealth and interest in the individual as a subject, did it become truly popular. [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
