''Self-Portrait'' is a c. 1525–1530 oil painting by

Domenico Beccafumi Domenico di Pace Beccafumi (1486May 18, 1551) was an Italian Renaissance- Mannerist painter active predominantly in Siena. He is considered one of the last undiluted representatives of the Sienese school of painting. Biography Domenico was bor ...

, using a support of card pasted onto canvas. It forms part of the collection of artist's self-portraits at the

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, Italy. It entered the gallery in 1682 by which time it had been expanded on all four sides to fit a frame or to make it a pendent to another work. Its frame misidentifies it as a self-portrait by

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, it regained its present attribution in the second half of the 20th century after previous critical neglect. However, no other portrayals of the painter survive for comparison and so it may be a sketch for a portrait of another man rather than a self-portrait. Anna Maria Francini Ciaranfi, ''Beccafumi'', Sadea Editore/Sansoni, Firenze 1967.

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1530 paintings Beccafumi Paintings in the collection of the Uffizi Paintings by Domenico Beccafumi {{16C-painting-stub