Self-Portrait, Albrecht Dürer

Albrecht Dürer (1471–1528) was the towering genius of the Northern Renaissance — a painter, printmaker, mathematician, and theorist whose work transformed European art and whose influence stretched from Nuremberg to Rome. He was the first artist north of the Alps to fully absorb the lessons of the Italian Renaissance and forge them into something entirely his own.

His Self-Portrait at Twenty-Eight (1500), now in the Alte Pinakothek in Munich, is one of the most extraordinary and audacious self-portraits in the history of art. Dürer painted himself in a frontal pose traditionally reserved for images of Christ — a deliberate, deeply considered statement about the divine nature of artistic creativity and the God-given gift of the artist’s hand. The gaze is direct, penetrating, and utterly self-assured. The fur-trimmed coat, the perfectly rendered curls, the hand resting at the center of the composition — every detail speaks of a man who understood exactly what he was doing and why.

It remains one of the most psychologically powerful portraits ever painted — a Renaissance masterpiece of the first order.

• Museum-quality giclée print on premium photo paper
• Faithful color reproduction of the original oil painting
• Rich detail preserving Dürer’s extraordinary precision and depth
• Ready to frame and display