Who Painted This? #27

Apologies for the lack of a Who Painted this? final calendar week - simply final Fri was the twenty-four hr stream afterward my oculus operation in addition to I needed a interruption (see Normal vision volition move resumed equally presently equally possible) because it wasn't real to human face at the screen.  This postal service takes quite a long fourth dimension to fix equally I look to human face at an awful lot of images earlier settling on i - thence I decided to skip a calendar week - in addition to a few days of posting!

Anyway, I guide keep a real overnice epitome for y'all this week.  Not your usual form of icon - simply thence y'all wouldn't human face anything also slowly would you?

I suspect this volition move either a "get it direct away" or "lots of searches in addition to blind allies - in addition to lots of learning almost fine art history" - which is of course of written report why I produce this!  You might also larn a flake 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 somebody 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 nowAshmolean Museum, Oxford, UK

Who guessed correct?

Influenza A virus subtype H5N1 lot of y'all savage into my artistic "mantrap".  Yes - he did indeed human face real much equally if he mightiness be Diego Rodríguez de Silva y Velázquez - simply in reality this reply was the incorrect province in addition to incorrect human - simply real much the right form of time.

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

You tin hand notice run into self portraits yesteryear the ii 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:
Ilaria Rosselli del Turco in addition to Treeshark both got the scream of the creative somebody right.

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