As a painter, graphic artist and art theorist, Albrecht Dürer was one of the most important representatives of the Renaissance. His oeuvre includes numerous self-portraits. The earliest of these is a drawing he made at the age of thirteen, when he trained as a goldsmith under his father. The self-portrait of Dürer in the Uffizi Gallery that Roland Schauls refers to in this work is a copy of the self-portrait of 1498 exhibited at the Prado Museum. A painter in Dürer's circle copied it shortly after the original was painted. Originating from the heritage of Cardinal Leopoldo de' Medici, it passed into the collection of the Uffizi in 1682. By confidently depicting himself in the clothing of a nobleman, Dürer elevates himself to a higher social status than that of a craftsman.