\paperw19995 \margr0\margl0 \plain \fs20 \f1 This signed portrait shows Albrecht Dⁿrer at the age of twenty-six. The careful description of his fashionable attire is a m
ark of the German artistÆs desire to be seen as a cultivated, wealthy and admired man, a very different status from that of medieval painters, who were still viewed as mere artisans.
