| Many times artist depicted himself in a group of observers in different motifs of the paintings (Adoration of the magi, Miracle of a saint, Crucifixion etc.). Some of the artists were more innovative in this manner and put themselves in various roles such as Michelangelo Buonaroti who portrayed himself without a body, as an empty skin in the hands of Saint Bartholomew (Last Judgment in Sistine chapel). Early baroque painter Artemisia Gentileschi depicted herself as Judith Beheading Holofernes and Michelangelo Merisi da Caravaggio as decapitated Goliath’s head in David hands. |
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