In this lesson, young scholars will explore self-portraiture by looking at classical portrait paintings, such as Diego Velazquez's La Infanta Margarita or Raphael's Portrait of Baldassare Castiglione. A close look at these works reveals...

In this activity, students look at how non-human images can be used in a self-portrait to portray aspects of a personality.

Lesson plan that utilizes Photoshop to teach students about proportion and the grid drawing technique in order to create self-portrait drawings.

For this lesson, students will explore self-portraiture by looking at classical portrait paintings, such as Diego Velazquez's La Infanta Margarita or Raphael's Portrait of Baldassare Castiglione. A close look at these works reveals...

In addition to providing suggestions for drawing the perfect portrait, Kids at Art looks at Leonardo da Vinci and his ideas about depicting the human figure.

In this lesson, students will explore self-portraiture by looking at classical portrait paintings, such as Diego Velazquez's La Infanta Margarita or Raphael's Portrait of Baldassare Castiglione. A close look at these works reveals...

Wendy Wick Reaves,a curator at the National Portrait Gallery, discusses the pencil drawing by Stuart Davis and explains how he achieves the look of his self-portrait.

Portraits in the collections of the National Portrait Gallery can be seen and understood with excellent gallery notes that also survey the history of portraiture in American art leading up to the modern period.

In this lesson, 1st graders look at a print of "Mona Lisa" by Leonardo DaVinci and talk about what they see, searching for visual clues to help them form an opinion. They discuss the importance of portrait paintings during the...

A reference point for study of Rembrandt.

A self-portrait by Leonardo.

Sculptor and printmaker, she is among the most significant artists of her generation. This exhibition showcases the scope of Smith through such topics as anatomy, self-portraiture, nature, and female iconography.

An image of "Self-Portrait (recto)", created by Jacopo Pontormo in 1525 (Red chalk, 284 x 202 mm).

An image of "Self-Portrait", created by Jacopo Pontormo from 1526-28 (Red chalk, 155 x 107 mm).

An image of "Self-Portrait", created by Albrecht Durer in 1521 (Coloured pen drawing, 127 x 117 mm).

An image of "Self-Portrait as the Man of Sorrows", created by Albrecht Durer in 1522 (Drawing with lead pencil on blue-green primed paper, 408 x 290 mm).

An image of "Self-Portrait", created by Asmus Jakob Carstens in 1784 (Pencil drawing, 332 x 208 mm).

An image of "Self-Portrait with Cap", created by Eugene Delacroix in 1832 (Drawing, 193 x 127 mm).

An image of "Self-Portrait", created by Paul Gavarni in 1842 (Drawing).

An image of "Self-Portrait with a Bandage", created by Albrecht Durer from 1491-92 (Pen drawing on paper, back side, 204 x 208 mm).

An image of "Self-Portrait", created by Hendrick Goltzius from 1592-94 (Drawing).

An image of "Self-portrait", created by Lambert-Sigisbert Adam, c. 1740 (Drawing).

Michael Kimmelman, art critic for the New York Times, narrates a walk-through slideshow of an exhibition of Van Gogh's drawings mounted by the Metropolitan Museum of Art in 2005. Wonderful examples of Van Gogh's landscapes and...

This resource provides a very informative biography as well as a gallery with 15 pictures of great Escher art.