With nearly two hundred images, this volume covers the development of the self-portrait from Filippo Lippi, Raphael, Rubens, and Hogarth to Gauguin, Mondrian, Van Gogh, and Man Ray
Pascal Bonafoux is a French writer, novelist, art critic and art historian, a specialist in self-portraiture. He collaborates with various newspapers and magazines, he is the author of numerous essays dedicated to art and was a resident at the French Academy in Rome. He is professor of art history at Paris 8 University, and is also a curator who organises exhibitions either in France or abroad.