Portrait Archives - McMaster Museum of Art https://museum.mcmaster.ca/tag/portrait/ Wed, 17 Feb 2021 04:30:28 +0000 en-US hourly 1 https://wordpress.org/?v=7.0 https://museum.mcmaster.ca/wp-content/uploads/2021/04/cropped-mma_favicon_24bit_alt-32x32.png Portrait Archives - McMaster Museum of Art https://museum.mcmaster.ca/tag/portrait/ 32 32 About Maximilian III: his portrait, history and hat https://museum.mcmaster.ca/about-maximilian-iii-his-portrait-history-and-hat/?utm_source=rss&utm_medium=rss&utm_campaign=about-maximilian-iii-his-portrait-history-and-hat Tue, 10 Nov 2015 19:12:54 +0000 http://museum.mcmaster.ca/?p=6768 Researchers working on our current exhibition/project The Unvarnished Truth identified the man in one painting as Maximilian III.

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]]> Rare 17th century portrait discovered https://museum.mcmaster.ca/rare-17th-century-portrait-discovered/?utm_source=rss&utm_medium=rss&utm_campaign=rare-17th-century-portrait-discovered Mon, 25 May 2015 14:14:16 +0000 http://museum.mcmaster.ca/?p=6218 The McMaster Museum of Art announces the positive identification of a rare portrait by 17th century British artist Mary Beale (1663 – 1699) in the Museum’s collection.

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]]> Leonard Baskin’s Prints to Honour Sculptors https://museum.mcmaster.ca/leonard-baskins-prints-to-honour-sculptors/?utm_source=rss&utm_medium=rss&utm_campaign=leonard-baskins-prints-to-honour-sculptors Thu, 13 Nov 2014 22:06:53 +0000 http://mcmastermuseum.wordpress.com/?p=4792 Currently on display at the McMaster Museum of Art are five pieces from Leonard Baskin’s book Twelve Sculptors: a book of monotypes with short notes on the monotypes and the sculptors (1988).

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]]> This is Me, This is Also Me https://museum.mcmaster.ca/this-is-me-this-is-also-me-opens-nov-6/?utm_source=rss&utm_medium=rss&utm_campaign=this-is-me-this-is-also-me-opens-nov-6 Wed, 29 Oct 2014 20:35:45 +0000 http://mcmastermuseum.wordpress.com/?p=4861 In this age of the selfie, a new exhibition, This is Me, This is Also Me, brings a timely and provocative focus to questions about how we choose to represent ourselves, the techniques we use and the implications of the images we share. It brings together some of the world’s most iconic and intriguing self-portraits by artists.

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]]> Portrait of a Portrait of the Artist: Degas’ copy of Lippi https://museum.mcmaster.ca/portrait-of-a-portrait-of-the-artist-degas-copy-of-lippi/?utm_source=rss&utm_medium=rss&utm_campaign=portrait-of-a-portrait-of-the-artist-degas-copy-of-lippi Tue, 19 Jun 2012 13:56:47 +0000 http://mcmastermuseum.wordpress.com/?p=2596 In our exhibition, The Last Things Before the Last, is an early drawing from the MMA collection by Edgar Degas, often regarded as one of the founders of French Impressionism (although he rejected the term, and preferred to be called a realist).

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