How to look at and understand great art Episode 19, Self-portraits - how artists see themselves Episode 19, Self-portraits - how artists see themselves.

Streaming video - 2011

Across the centuries, self-portraits fascinatingly reveal the changing role of the artist. Follow this progression, from Renaissance painters subtly placing themselves within large compositions, to self-portraiture's emergence as a major form of self-revelation, noting many dramatic and colorful traditions within the form.