Its symmetry and frontal orientation give Dürer the appearance, and unapproachability, of a holy icon. He completed this self-portrait at 28, though his face has a curiously ageless aspect.

The image is widely regarded as one of the most influential self-portraits in history. As this week marks the 550th anniversary of Dürer’s birth on May 21, 1471, we decided to take a look at ...

Raphael and Dürer struck up a long-distance friendship when they were at the peak of their popularity, living over 600 miles ...

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Dürer, according to the curator, signed and dated his drawings and watercolors and regarded them as distinct works of art. The earliest piece in the show is a self-portrait drawn when Dürer was 13.

Sofonisba Anguissola painted more self-portraits than any Renaissance artist after Albrecht Dürer If you had six daughters in the 16th century, you had a problem. Dowries, after all, add up.

Albrecht Dürer painted this self-portrait in 1498. Albrecht Dürer / Public domain via Wikimedia Commons Winter recently decided to “get it checked out to see if it was as special as it looked ...

Crucially, another version of the Dürer work—a drawing—is in the ... verifying contested works such as an 1889 self-portrait by Vincent van Gogh at the National Museum in Oslo.