Sunday, July 19, 2026

Ego Vivo

Jacques-Laurent Agasse
Self Portrait at age 18
1785
pastel on vellum
Cabinet d'Arts Graphiques
des Musées d'Art et d'Histoire, Genève

Max Beckmann
Self Portrait at age 15
1899
oil on canvas
Sprengel Museum, Hannover

Caspar Berger
Ego Vivo / Self Portrait 25
2013
mixed-media sculpture installation
Museum de Fundatie, Zwolle, Netherlands

Ami Bergman
Self Portrait
2021
acrylic on canvas
Moderna Museet, Stockholm

Wilhelm Dodel
Self Portrait with Dog Rose
ca. 1930
oil on canvas
Galerie Neue Meister, Dresden

Uno Falkengren
Self Portrait
ca. 1909
gelatin silver print
Moderna Museet, Stockholm

Angelica Kauffmann
Self Portrait
1784
oil on canvas
Neue Pinakothek, Munich

Käthe Kollwitz
Self Portrait
ca. 1890
drawing
Kupferstichkabinett,
Staatliche Kunstsammlungen, Dresden

Paula Modersohn-Becker
Self Portrait with Irises
ca. 1905
oil on canvas
Kunsthalle Bremen

Maximilian Reinitz
Self Portrait
ca. 1930
woodcut
Graphische Sammlung Albertina, Vienna

Samuel van Hoogstraten
Self Portrait at age 18
1645
oil on panel
Liechtenstein Museum, Vienna

Egon Schiele
Self Portrait
1910
watercolor and gouache on paper
Graphische Sammlung Albertina, Vienna

Helene Schjerfbeck
Self Portrait with Palette
1937
oil on canvas
Moderna Museet, Stockholm

Charley Toorop
Self Portrait with Palette
1934
oil on canvas
Kröller-Müller Museum, Otterlo, Netherlands

Harriet Sundström
Self Portrait
1913
color woodblock print
Moderna Museet, Stockholm

Albert Schindler
Self Portrait in the Studio
ca. 1840
oil on panel
Liechtenstein Museum, Vienna

That same summer, the Thebans demolished the walls of the Thespians, laying Atticism to their charge.  And though they had ever meant to do it, yet now it was easier, because the flower of their youth was slain in the battle against the Athenians.  The temple of Juno in Argos was also burnt down the same summer, by the negligence of Chrysis, the priest, who, having set a burning torch by the garlands, fell asleep, insomuch as all was on fire and flamed out before she knew.  Chrysis, the same night, for fear of the Argives, fled presently to Phlius; and they, according to the law formerly used, chose another priest in her room, called Phaeinis.  Now, when Chrysis fled, was the eighth year of this war ended, and half of the ninth.  Scione, in the very end of this summer, was quite enclosed; and the Athenians, having left a guard there, went home with the rest of their army.   

– from The Peloponnesian War as written by Thucydides (5th century BC) and translated by Thomas Hobbes (1628) and edited by David Grene (1959)