When National Geographic staff photographers Mark Thiessen and Becky Hale ran a Self-Portrait assignment, it got me thinking. I can’t say I was particularly excited about the assignment at first.

The concept centers around redefining occasion dressing, encouraging everyone to place real clothes in real-life settings.

The assignment: create a self-portrait. Art history is full of self-portraits. The great masters through the ages — Leonardo da Vinci, Raphael, Albrecht Durer, Jan Van Eyck, Vincent Van Gogh ...

Parents of a dozen students at a school near Montreal accused an art teacher in a lawsuit of reproducing portraits from a class assignment and putting them on items that he offered for sale online.

The Princess of Wales once again turned to Self-Portrait’s 2-in-1 dresses, for a polished, put-together look.

After Victorine Meurent posed for Manet’s ‘Olympia,’ she took art classes and painted this fascinating self-portrait To begin with, it’s one of fewer than half a dozen paintings attributed ...

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 ...

As it prepared for an exhibit, the National Galleries of Scotland found a previously unknown self-portrait by Vincent Van Gogh, covered by glue and cardboard, on the back of another of his paintings.

A striking self-portrait created by artist Max Beckmann during World War Two after he fled Nazi Germany is expected to fetch up to 30 million euros ($31.11 million) on Thursday, a record for a ...

A previously unknown self-portrait of celebrated Dutch artist Vincent Van Gogh has been discovered hiding in plain sight on the back of another painting, the National Galleries of Scotland ...

A Vincent Van Gogh self-portrait probably never seen before was discovered at an art gallery in Scotland – accidentally – through an X-ray machine. The remarkable piece was found at the ...