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BERNINI, Gian Lorenzo: Self-Portrait

🖼 Self-Portrait, 1675-80
Black and white chalks on buff paper
413 × 271 cm
Windsor, United Kingdom

Marble captures Bernini's penetrating gaze and furrowed brow in exquisite detail, his hair windswept with baroque dynamism. This self-portrait reveals the sculptor's mastery of physiognomy and established the introspective self-portrait as a vehicle for artistic genius during the seventeenth century.

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E. H. Gombrich
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