Northern Renaissance · 1500
Albrecht Dürer 1471–1528
Alte Pinakothek · Munich
Dürer paints himself frontally, Christlike, hand raised — an audacious claim for the dignity of the artist.
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He is looking straight at you — and he has been for five centuries. In 1500, Albrecht Dürer painted himself in the frontal pose reserved for images of Christ, a Northern Renaissance artist declaring that creative genius deserves the same reverence once granted only to the divine. That claim still holds the room.
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