Jenny Saville’s peers shunned painting in favour of alternative media such as photography, video and installations, the artist stuck to her guns and, unapologetically, worked on canvases as large as ...

A technical mishap led to Beyoncé’s “flying” car prop to tilt during a Cowboy Carter concert in Houston, with fans capturing the moment on video. The singer was quickly lowered down and without injury ...

Apart from being a model, Meurent was also an artist in her own right and in the same exhibition there is a self-portrait of her from 1876. Left: Edouard Manet, French, 1832–1883.

Rembrandt’s “Self-portrait at the Age of 34” hangs with its model, Titian’s “Portrait of Gerolamo Barbarigo”; Dutch Caravaggesque follower Gerard van Honthorst is next to the master.

One of the most sad and damaging self-portraits ever is Vincent van Gogh’s ‘Self-Portrait with Bandaged Ear’. It was painted after he cut off a part of his own ear following a fight with ...

Self-Portrait has outgrown its early cult status. It’s no longer the new kid on the block—it’s proving a fully realised fashion house, with maybe its best years still ahead.

In autumn 1906, Monet spent some days in Paris to allow his friend to sketch his portrait, a pencil drawing of a warm-eyed, bushy-bearded, smiling Monet. Alice reported them “very happy to see ...

Self-portraits tell a lot about a person. From the minute expressions that their eyes convey to the strands of hair that just put everything together, a self-portrait is probably the best way to ...

The self-portrait by Norman Cornish, a celebrated 20th-century British artist, was found when a conservator removed a board at the back of another artwork.