If you think the selfie was born as a direct result of the cellphone, “Self-Portrait in a Convex Mirror,” painted just over 500 years ago by Francesco Mazzola, the Italian artist commonly known as ...

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The total value of an artist’s artworks sold at auction over a specific period. This metric reflects the artist’s overall market activity and demand in monetary terms. The middle value of all realized ...

For maybe 600 years, artists have used their own reflections to engage with questions of identity and mortality, image and perception. So you could also look at the selfie as an extension of the rich ...