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Hi Roger,

I have just found the below excellent video of Zinaida Yevgenyevna Serebriakova. Her work was indeed extraordinary. Several paintings in the video, all of them outstanding, seem to be self portraits too.

Thanks for sharing all these artists' great works. I am pretty excited about them. Were it not for you, they would very probably remain unknown to me and other visitors.

Miguel

P.S. The video page contains a lot of information about the artist and her work, courtesy Wikipedia. Here is Wikipedia page too.

Miguel,

That was a great experience. I had heard the name previously but was unaware of just how good an artist she was.

She was well known for producing many self portraits.

This is quite extraordinary.

Nuremberg sculptor Adam Kraft, self-portrait from St Lorenz Church, 1490s.

This Titian is wonderful.

I hope that you agree?

Allegory of Time Governed by Prudence

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Allegory of Prudence, Titian, his son and the cousin he had virtually adopted, as Past, Present and Future. National Gallery, London, late 1560s.