# The 1500 self-portrait is a completed public Christ-like face

Date: 1500

## The fact

A sacred-face self is a polarising piety object. Twin of museum access. The dated public instrument is stored under 1500-01-01. [Albrecht Dürer](/people/albrecht-durer) did not operate this later page as a civil-registry autograph.

It is one event.

## Context

Shared institutions, unnamed crews, and later editors remain in the record and do not erase a documented heading.

Albrecht Dürer Shared work with other named actors remains in the record.

Albrecht Dürer’s documented role is bounded by other offices and collaborators named in the sources below. Sharing a field with them is not a reason to drop a documented act, and it is not a reason to assign later consequences done in the name after death.

Conventional 1471–1528. Dated instruments are museum print pages, the Nuremberg house, and treatise editions.

Named person as heading of the dated public instrument. Later editors, museums, printers, or offices share publication. Complex where later carriers are the surviving public file.

## Evidence and sources

Alte Pinakothek — Dürer self-portrait and Britannica — Albrecht Dürer independently describe this instrument.

Official or archival record: Alte Pinakothek — Dürer self-portrait (https://www.pinakothek.de/en; Bayerische Staatsgemäldesammlungen).

## Significance

A sacred-face self is a polarising piety object. Twin of museum access.

## What is established and what is not

Established as a dated public record of this instrument.

What would change the picture: a contradictory original with a different date or name, or a measured series that can be argued, with lag and alternatives, as a consequence of this instrument rather than of later institutions.

What would change the picture: a contradictory original with a different date or name, or a measured series that can be argued, with lag and alternatives, as a consequence of this instrument rather than of later institutions.

The date is the date of this instrument, not a licence to back-date every later harm or benefit.

Established here: a sourced, dated public instrument with a named contribution by Albrecht Dürer.

They are not a public rating.

The driver `political-polarization` is attached because the mechanism named in Significance follows from this instrument, not because a standing list of welfare headings needed another tick. Albrecht Dürer did not file a later UNESCO form, a later Loeb colophon, or a later museum label as a personal act. A portrait or conventional bust is not this mechanism. Allegation, reconstruction, and established occurrence stay distinct.

## People

- Albrecht Dürer: https://factrail.ai/people/albrecht-durer

## Drivers

- Political Polarization: https://factrail.ai/drivers/political-polarization

## Sources

- https://www.pinakothek.de/en
- https://www.britannica.com/biography/Albrecht-Durer-German-artist

## Methodology

https://factrail.ai/methodology

Canonical: https://factrail.ai/facts/adr-self-portrait-as-christ-type