If you think the selfie was born as a direct result of the cellphone, “Self-Portrait in a Convex Mirror,” painted just over 500 years ago by Francesco Mazzola, the Italian artist commonly known as ...

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For maybe 600 years, artists have used their own reflections to engage with questions of identity and mortality, image and perception. So you could also look at the selfie as an extension of the rich ...

Sofonisba Anguissola painted more self-portraits than any Renaissance artist after Albrecht Dürer If you had six daughters in the 16th century, you had a problem. Dowries, after all, add up. The ...