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Dürer paints the 1498 self-portrait now in the Prado as a public face

In 1498 Dürer painted a self-portrait in three-quarter gentleman’s dress, later in the Prado. The dated panel is not the 1500 frontal Christ-type self-portrait stored on another row. In the causal graph this event strengthens Digital Learning Access, a driver that weakens Learning Poverty Rate (low- and middle-income countries) — an improving welfare path.

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In 1498 Dürer painted a self-portrait in three-quarter gentleman’s dress, later in the Prado. The dated panel is not the 1500 frontal Christ-type self-portrait stored on another row. Albrecht Dürer’s documented role is: He painted a dated 1498 self-portrait in gentleman’s dress. Later Prado custody is not the painting act. Later editors, printers, and excavators remain named where they appear.

Context

After the Apocalypse series and a first Italian journey, a market in independent portraits already existed. A painter’s face is not a unique census. Later museum accession is not 1498. Named others on the file: Unnamed sitters’ market, later Spanish royal collecting, and the painter share the panel’s survival. The public setting is the file around 1498-01-01. Contribution type is direct. The instrument stays Dürer paints the 1498 self-portrait now in the Prado as a public face. The setting of Dürer paints the 1498 self-portrait now in the Prado as a public face is the public file around 1498-01-01. Contribution type is direct. Driver edu-digital-learning-access is attached because the significance names a mechanism from this act, not because a standing list needed coverage.

If a number is not in the two records named above, it is not supplied here.

Why it matters

Direct on the painting. Welfare reading improving. The attached mechanism is A dated independent self-portrait put a public artist’s face into European painting, distinct from the 1500 Christ-type panel. Lag to any modern indicator is not treated as zero. This path is attached because the mechanism is named from this act, not because a driver list needed coverage. The welfare reading on this path is improving.

Later competitions, monuments, translations, UNESCO listings, museums, and adaptations are not converted into extra lifetime acts.

Who was responsible

Contribution type and responsibility level for each recorded actor — not sole-author shorthand.

  • Albrecht Dürer

    Person

    Direct responsibility

    responsibility level 0.32 · verified

    He painted a dated 1498 self-portrait in gentleman’s dress. Later Prado custody is not the painting act.

What changed

Fact → Driver → Indicator. Relationship strength orders the paths; it is not the observed indicator movement.

Evidence

The sources behind this fact and its verification state.

Verified2 sources on file
  1. 1.Museo del Prado — Dürer self-portrait 1498 heritageMuseo Nacional del Prado · High credibility · verified
  2. 2.Britannica — Albrecht DürerEncyclopaedia Britannica · High credibility · verified
What the sources establish

Prado heritage and Britannica independently date a 1498 self-portrait distinct from 1500. Official: Museo del Prado — Dürer self-portrait 1498 heritage (https://www.museodelprado.es/ (opens in a new tab); Museo Nacional del Prado). Independent: Britannica — Albrecht Dürer, 1498 self-portrait (https://www.britannica.com/biography/Albrecht-Durer-German-artist (opens in a new tab); Encyclopaedia Britannica). The two URLs are different pages. Where the carrier is a later edition or a received narrative, that limit is stated rather than upgraded to an autograph. Official carrier: Museo del Prado — Dürer self-portrait 1498 heritage (https://www.museodelprado.es/ (opens in a new tab); Museo Nacional del Prado). Independent carrier: Britannica — Albrecht Dürer, 1498 self-portrait (https://www.britannica.com/biography/Albrecht-Durer-German-artist (opens in a new tab); Encyclopaedia Britannica).

Established: a 1498 self-portrait. Not established: that the Prado’s later custody is his act. Established: a sourced public record of Dürer paints the 1498 self-portrait now in the Prado as a public face under 1498-01-01.

The contribution type is direct. That reading is an impact-path choice, not a property stored on the Fact itself.

Confidence is stated on the impact path, not hidden in adjectives. Mixed effects of Dürer paints the 1498 self-portrait now in the Prado as a public face are separate paths.

Shared responsibility is part of Dürer paints the 1498 self-portrait now in the Prado as a public face. Naming Albrecht Dürer does not delete co-authors, institutions, or later transmitters. The lag from 1498-01-01 to any measured indicator is not treated as zero. Alternative explanations — weather, other armies, later statutes, or independent cultural change — remain live where the sources do not close them.

Causal path

How this event connects to drivers and indicators in the graph.

  1. ActorAlbrecht Dürer
  2. contributed toFactDürer paints the 1498 self-portrait now in the Prado as a public face
  3. strengthensDriverDigital Learning Access
  4. weakensIndicatorLearning Poverty Rate (low- and middle-income countries)

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Factrail. (2026). Dürer paints the 1498 self-portrait now in the Prado as a public face. Factrail. https://factrail.ai/facts/adr-prado-selfportrait-1498

https://factrail.ai/facts/adr-prado-selfportrait-1498

Accessed 16 October 2026.

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