The Female Self-Portrait Across the Ages 3
Forget the stereotypical art collector In 1548 in Antwerp, a 20-year-old artist painted a self-portrait. Despite its modesty and scale, Catharina van Hemessen’s painting of herself at the easel is significant: it’s the first known self-portrait of an artist at work. It also highlights the fact that, at a time when women had no political […]
The Female Self-Portrait Across the Ages
Forget the stereotypical art collector In 1548 in Antwerp, a 20-year-old artist painted a self-portrait. Despite its modesty and scale, Catharina van Hemessen’s painting of herself at the easel is significant: it’s the first known self-portrait of an artist at work. It also highlights the fact that, at a time when women had no political […]
