Luca Cambiaso, autorretrato pintando a su padre, Corredor Vasariano

This unusual self-portrait at the Palazzo Bianco in Genoa depicts Luca Cambiaso painting alongside his father Giovanni Cambiaso, making it a rare double self-portrait documenting a workshop dynasty. Giovanni Cambiaso (c. 1495–1579) was himself a painter who trained his son in the fundamentals before Luca surpassed him to become Genoa's leading master. The inclusion of the father in a self-portrait is an act of filial piety and professional acknowledgment — documenting the transmission of craft knowledge across generations within a family workshop. Painted around 1570 and associated with the Corredor Vasariano (the title referencing the Uffizi's corridor where artists' self-portraits were collected), this work shows Cambiaso's awareness of the artistic self-portrait as a genre with its own conventions and prestige. It is a remarkable document of artistic identity and inheritance.

Oil on panel or canvas with the directness of Cambiaso's self-portraiture: the figures are presented without idealizing elevation, their working identity emphasized. The double-portrait format requires compositional balance between two equally present figures without subordinating one to the other.