Miniatures – tiny portraits, often no bigger than a palm and sometimes as small as the width of a thumb – were the descendants of the gold-leaf illuminations in medieval manuscripts.

The phantasmagoric “R” features a twisting serpent, a sciapod (one-legged mythic creature), as well as a self-portrait of Rufillus in action, toiling away at his work.

A new self-portrait has been discovered behind the cardboard backing of one of the painter’s early paintings.

Alice Neel was born in 1900 and became one of the world’s most renowned portrait artists. But, it wasn’t until the artist was 80 years old that she produced her first self-portrait.

Therefore, more self-portraits may happen in the future,” he wrote. Our Faces, Our Voices is on view at the Fort Worth Community Arts Center through November 7.

2004-06-04 04:00:00 PDT New York -- On Thursday, when Sotheby's opened its exhibition of property to be auctioned from Katharine Hepburn's estate, the public could see for the first time two ...

In “Self-Portrait With Father,” the speaker calls a meeting (real or imagined) with the abusive father. The diction is matter-of-fact, the syntax conventional; the imagery is simple and bare ...

A hidden self-portrait by Vincent van Gogh has been discovered behind one of his paintings, covered by layers of glue and cardboard for more than a century.

More than 25 newly discovered pictures by one of the pioneers of colour photography will go on show at the National Portrait Gallery when it reopens.

When the giant paintings that Chuck Close based on black-and-white photographs first appeared in New York exhibitions in the late '60s, no one knew quite how to describe them. They looked like ...

Beyond straightforward self-portraits, artists through the ages have left special signatures on their canvases, covertly inserting their own visages into their works in unusual and inventive ways.