The beginnings of the self-portrait #9. Cola Petruccioli created one of the first self-portraits.
Channel: Art, Sport & Nature
Date: 2023-05-01

Cola Petruccioli, painter who created one of the first self-portraits in Western painting.
Around 1400 Cola Petruccioli depicts himself at the Basilica of Saint Dominic in Perugia in a quatrefoil holding in his hand a bucket of paint and a brush.
It is a way of clearly identifying oneself  as a painter, proud of his activity.
He is one of the first Western painters to create their self-portrait.
 
A story in few shorts of the genesis of one of the most famous artistic genres in the history of art, the path of which took a long time to trace.
Les débuts absolus de l'autoportrait.
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Récit en quelques courts métrages de la genèse d'un des genres artistiques les plus célèbres de l'histoire de l'art, dont la voie a été longue à tracer.
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