Dürer produces a remarkable series of self-portraits, including the later famous “Self-Portrait,” in 1500.

Around this time, twenty-year-old painter and graphic artist Hans von Kulmbach, whose real name is Hans Suss, becomes assistant to Dürer in Nuremberg after studying with the well-known painter, engraver, and designer of woodcuts Jacopo de' Barbari, whom Dürer admires.

De' Barbari, whom Dürer had met in Venice, visits Nuremberg in 1500, and Dürer will say that he learned much about the new developments in perspective, anatomy, and proportion from him.

De' Barbari is unwilling to explain everything he knows, so Dürer begins his own studies, which will become a lifelong preoccupation.