| http://www.w3.org/ns/prov#value | - It is a modern invention, and hardly fair to any number of quiet and diligent workers, but it characterizes the sort of person who would deem his likeness worthy of being immortalized in art. (It also hints at why portraits of artists by other artists are hard to come by.) But are we to suppose that self-centeredness (or mere self-awareness) was entirely lacking among pre-Renaissance artists?
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