Self-Portrait
Albrecht Dürer
1500
Self-Portrait (or Self-Portrait at Twenty-Eight) is a panel painting by the German Renaissance artist Albrecht Dürer. Completed early in 1500, just before his 29th birthday, it is the last of his three painted self-portraits. Art historians consider it the most personal, iconic and complex of these.
The self-portrait is considered remarkable because of its resemblance to contemporary representations of Christ, which could be interpreted as a feat of either stunning arrogance or blasphemy.
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