Essays in Self-Portraiture: A Comparison of Technique in the Self-Portraits of Montaigne and Rembrandt

by Andrew Small

Essays in Self-Portraiture is the first book-length study devoted entirely to comparing the written self-portrait of Montaigne with the painted self-portraits of another artist, Rembrandt. The author begins by examining the nature of self-portraiture, which he defines in relationship to biography, autobiography and portraiture. Thereafter he examines the origin and nature of self-portraiture as a toponymical phenomenon. By pairing specific...

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0820427896
• ISBN13: 9780820427898
• Release Date: February 1996
• Publisher: Peter Lang Inc., International Academic Publi
• Length: 146 Pages
• Weight: 0.92 lbs.