Aug 31, 2021
4 min read
An ‘Imitation of Christ’ or an ‘Act of Blasphemy’?
Interpreting Albrecht Dürer’s Self Portrait, 1500
In an era where painters didn’t even sign their artworks, leave aside the self-portraits, there was a German Renaissance painter, Albrecht Dürer, who rejected the conventional path and was far ahead of his time.
One subject fascinated him above all: himself.
