The Painted I: Albrecht Dürer’s Last Self-Portrait

Why has God given me such magnificent talent? It is a curse as well as a great blessing.

-Albrecht Dürer

In 1500 Albrecht Dürer, aged 28, painted the last of his self portraits, a stunning vision of the painter as distinctly Christ-like and mimicking the Salvator Mundi gesture. The inscription to…

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