EPPH - Every Painter Paints Himself

See why Jonah is the most important figure in the chapel

Michelangelo thought he was divine. His contemporaries called him Il Divino and he was modest enough (depending on your outlook) to recognize that he alone could not create his works but that God guided his hand.

Michelangelo’s Last Judgment is a composition so full of incidents inconsistent with an orthdox reading of the Last Judgment and theology that experts often have trouble explaining them.

This curious painting by Manet makes little sense until the viewer uses the idea that every painter paints himself

Learn something about Manet's first major painting that has never been noted, except by artists.

Some of Édouard Manet’s important paintings are so strange that one can only wonder why anyone ever thought they depicted the real world. Yet contemporaries thought so and most people still do today.