Visual analysis

 The Desperate Man

• Artist: Courbet, Gustave | Date: 1845 | Dimensions: 45 × 55 cm | Materials:
• Tags: 1800s, canvas, figurative, French, oil, paint, portrait, self portrait
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 Rembrandt self portrait at age 22

• Artist: Rembrandt | Date: 1628-1629 | Dimensions: 22.6 × 18.7 cm | Materials:
• Tags: 1600s, dark, Dutch, figurative, light, oil, paint, portrait, self portrait, wood
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 Albrecht Dürer Self Portrait at age 28

• Artist: Dürer, Albrecht | Date: 1500 | Dimensions: 67 × 49 cm | Materials:
• Tags: 1500s, figurative, German, Munich, oil, paint, portrait, self portrait, wood
•  http://noslides.com/durer/albrecht-durer-self-portrait-at-age-28/

"The Emperor Rudolph II as Vertumnus" 

By Giuseppe Arcimboldo (1527?–1593), c.1590. © Skoklosters Castle (11615). Photo Samuel Uhrdin.

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