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Self-Portrait with Fur-Trimmed Robe (1500) by Albrecht DürerOriginal Source: Object in the Online-Collection of the Pinakotheken
„I, Albrecht Dürer of Nuremberg portrayed myself in appropriate colours aged twenty-eight years"
Self-Portrait with Fur-Trimmed Robe (1500) by Albrecht DürerOriginal Source: Object in the Online-Collection of the Pinakotheken
Each word of this Latin inscription was carefully chosen.
Dürer based the style of this portrait on icons of a blessing Salvator.
Self-Portrait with Fur-Trimmed Robe (1500) by Albrecht DürerOriginal Source: Object in the Online-Collection of the Pinakotheken
This self-portrait, probably the most unusual in the history of art due to its immediate frontality and meticulous execution, touches most viewers.
The details are highly individual.
Self-Portrait with Fur-Trimmed Robe (1500) by Albrecht DürerOriginal Source: Object in the Online-Collection of the Pinakotheken
Self-Portrait with Fur-Trimmed Robe (1500) by Albrecht DürerOriginal Source: Object in the Online-Collection of the Pinakotheken
The direct gaze and the hand in the picture address seeing and the act of creating.
#Kunstminute | Martin Schawe: Albrecht Dürer, Selbstbildnis im PelzrockAlte Pinakothek, Bayerische Staatsgemäldesammlungen
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