Self-portrait at 13, 1493, Albrecht Dürer

One of the most prolific  self-portraitists which belongs to the Renaissance is a German graphic artist Albrecht Dürer. His first work, self-portrait which he made when he was 13 years old, as it is called, Self-portrait at 13. In 1493 he painted  self-portrait  with barbed flower, a work is in the Louvre, in Paris, which was first Normand painter who painted himself,not as a member of a community but as an individual.He sent  this self-portrait to his betrothed Agnes Fry. The bottom of the image can be read and the motto "My life flows to the wishes of the sky".