Self-portraits, those pictures artists make of themselves, have been around for a long time. But they didn't become really popular until the Renaissance, around the 15th century. Before then, artists might include themselves in bigger paintings, like religious scenes, but they didn't make whole paintings just of themselves. One of the first artists to make a lot of self-portraits was Albrecht Dürer, who started making them when he was just 13 years old. He became famous for his self-portraits,