Self-Portrait at Twenty-Eight
Face Front
Albrecht Dürer · 1500
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Nuremberg. 1500.
Dürer is twenty-eight.
He paints himself again.
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Straight on. Symmetrical.
Portraits of the day turned three-quarters.
This pose belonged to Christ.
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One hand at his chest.
Fingers in the fur trim.
A rich man's coat.
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Right of his face: four lines of Latin.
His name. His city. His age.
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Left of his face: a date.
1500. Under it, A and D.
His initials. Read them again. Anno Domini.
Twenty-eight.
Facing you.
Uncropped.
“Albertus Durerus Noricus ipsum me propriis sic effingebam coloribus aetatis anno XXVIII”
1805
The panel leaves Nuremberg for Munich.
Price: 600 gulden.
The receipt is signed by Abraham Küfner.
Nuremberg kept a copy.
The original is still in Munich.
Albrecht Dürer
German · Northern Renaissance · 1471 to 1528
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