Read a review by Jackie Wullschlager, Jul 11, 2009 on "A Face to the Worlds" by Laura Cumming

Among the gazes which follow us round an art gallery, those from self-portraits have a "special look of looking. Even small children can tell self-portraits from portraits because of those eyes.  The look is intent, activiely seeking you out of crowd; the nearest analogy may be with life itself: paintings behaving like people".

Tintoretto’s dark-eyed stare is “ a hook so strong you cannot immediately pull away for the sense of being held in his sights... ”