Brand New!! Who Painted This? #27

Apologies for the lack of a Who Painted this? final calendar week - exactly final Fri was the twenty-four hours subsequently my oculus surgical physical care for together with I needed a pause (see Normal vision volition hold upwardly resumed every bit before long every bit possible) because it wasn't real to expression at the screen.  This post service takes quite a long fourth dimension to ready every bit I appear to expression at an awful lot of images earlier settling on i - thence I decided to skip a calendar week - together with a few days of posting!

Anyway, I direct maintain a real prissy epitome for y'all this week.  Not your usual kind of epitome - exactly thence y'all wouldn't hold back anything likewise slow would you?

I suspect this volition hold upwardly either a "get it direct away" or "lots of searches together with blind allies - together with lots of learning almost fine art history" - which is of class why I practise this!  You might also larn a chip almost dogs on the way! ;)

Who painted this? #27

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Self Portrait attributed to

Gian Lorenzo Bernini

Who Painted This #26 - The Answer

• Title of the artwork: Self Portrait
• Name of the creative mortal who created this artwork: Gian Lorenzo Bernini
• Date it was created: c.1630
• Media used: chalk on newspaper 21.5 x 27.5 cm
• Where it lives now: Ashmolean Museum, Oxford, UK

Who guessed correct?

Influenza A virus subtype H5N1 lot of y'all savage into my artistic "mantrap".  Yes - he did indeed expression real much every bit if he mightiness be Diego Rodríguez de Silva y Velázquez - exactly in reality this reply was the incorrect province together with incorrect human - exactly real much the right kind of time.

This self-portrait drawing by Gian Lorenzo Bernini (1598 – 1680) was done inwards Italia whereas Velasquez (1599 – 1660) was born inwards Spain.  Maybe the moustache together with haircut were both a mode of the time?

You tin come across self portraits past times the 2 artists on Wikimedia - these are Bernini's self-portraits and these are Velasquez self portraits

Congratulations to Barbara Jackson (Painting amongst Pencil) who got the consummate right reply first.

Others who also got the right reply were:

• Colours together with Textures
• Alyson Champ
• Joan of bonne destination
• David J. Teter

Ilaria Rosselli del Turco together with Treeshark both got the cry of the creative mortal right.

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