The genre of self-portraiture fully developed in Western painting during the Renaissance. Dürer’s self-portraits are not only among the earliest examples of the genre, but are also some of the finest ...
This is a great favourite of mine, the detail of the artists playing with the fur brings us really close, the arrogance of painting himself like Christ is rather good, but... on display in the Munich Alte Pinakothek, it has glass on it and the reflections from lights really spoil this masterpiece - tragic