Self-Portrait at Twenty-Eight
1500 · Oil on lime panel · Alte Pinakothek, Munich
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About this work
- Artist
- Albrecht Dürer (1471–1528)
- Year
- 1500
- Medium
- Oil on lime panel
- Original size
- 67.1 × 48.9 cm
- Collection
- Alte Pinakothek, Munich
- Movement
- Northern Renaissance
Dürer shows himself head-on against a black ground, his long brown curls falling to his shoulders, his right hand raised to the fur collar of a brown coat in a gesture close to blessing. A strictly frontal pose was then usual only for images of Christ, and the painting deliberately echoes them. To the left are his monogram and the date 1500; to the right a Latin inscription reads, in translation, I, Albrecht Dürer of Nuremberg, portrayed myself in everlasting colours at the age of twenty-eight. He completed it early in 1500, just before his twenty-ninth birthday; it is the last of his three painted self-portraits, after those of 1493 and 1498. Twenty-eight marked, in the medieval scheme of life's stages, the step from youth to maturity, and the year 1500 gave the A.D. of his monogram the added sense of Anno Domini. The panel probably went to the Nuremberg city council and was on view there until 1805, when it was sold to the Bavarian royal collection. It hangs in the Alte Pinakothek, Munich.
This exhibition-poster edition shows the whole work beneath original typography set in-house. The original is in the public domain.
Where it works
A frontal bearded face framed by long brown curls and fur against pure black, for a study, library or hallway at 24×36 in black. A charcoal, warm grey or deep brown wall; it pairs with Self-Portrait with Physalis.
Style, size & framing detail
- Style
- Exhibition poster of a Northern Renaissance painting
- Era
- 15th century (1500)
- Orientation
- Portrait
- Palette
- cream & beige
- Mood
- intimate
- Rooms
- hallway or entryway, study or library, living room, dining room, dorm room
- Good gift for
- housewarming, art lovers
Size. We'd hang this one at 24×36. Prints at 12×18, 16×24, 24×36 in — 12×18 for a shelf, desk or a gallery-wall grid; 16×24 above a desk, console or in a hallway; 24×36 as the statement piece above a sofa or bed.
Framing. Exhibition posters sit best in a slim black frame with no mat — the typeset margin is the mat.
Pairing. Pairs as a set of three with other famous painting prints (10% off three or more).
Details & materials
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About this design
The Madten promise
A fine-art print
The same artwork as a clean fine-art print — the image shown large with a minimal caption.
