Publication at Faculty of Arts |
2016
Abstract
The article analyzes the sources and meaning of the two self-portraits which belong to the most important representatives of this genre in the Czech Baroque art. The first was painted by Petr Brandl ca. 1722-25 and represents the artist making "polemical" gesture with fingers of his hands.
The other picture was created by Jan Kupecký in 1709, and shows the painter, decorated by a golden chain with the sun as its appendage, which serve as the attribute of the art of painting understood as the true representation of the world.