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Adam and Eve by Albrecht Dürer
Adam and Eve by Albrecht Dürer, 1504
(Image credit: Rijksmuseum, Amsterdam)

Albrecht Dürer (1471-1528) had a “high opinion of himself”, said Alastair Sooke in The Daily Telegraph. This was, after all, an artist who at the age of 28 depicted himself as Christ in a marvellous self-portrait that reeks of “preening, perfumed self-regard”.

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