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Knight, Death and the Devil (German: Ritter, Tod und Teufel) is a large 1513 engraving by the German artist Albrecht Dürer, one of the three Meisterstiche (master prints) completed during a period when he almost ceased to work in paint or woodcuts to focus on engravings.
Title: Knight, Death, and the Devil. Artist: Albrecht Dürer (German, Nuremberg 1471–1528 Nuremberg) Date: 1513. Medium: Engraving. Dimensions: Sheet: 9 13/16 x 7 11/16 in. (25 x 19.6 cm) Plate: 9 9/16 x 7 3/8 in. (24.3 x 18.8 cm) Classification: Prints. Credit Line: Harris Brisbane Dick Fund, 1943. Accession Number: 43.106.2
18 de oct. de 2021 · Knight, Death and the Devil (1513), is one of Dürer’s most famous and most complex artworks that has been subject to much debate among art historians. At the heart of the controversy is the figure of the knight, and his symbolic function and meaning.
Knight, Death, and the Devil. 1513. Albrecht Dürer. German, 1471-1528. Albrecht Dürer’s masterful engraving encourages the viewer to reflect on the inevitability of their mortality. Lurking behind the knight on his muscular warhorse, the skeletal, deteriorating figure of Death sits astride his aging steed and demonstrates the running ...
Knight Death and the Devil Inspirations for the Work. Desiderius Erasmus. Gouda. Knight, Death and the Devil is likely to have been inspired by the Bible and biblical preaching as the engraving is of a Christian knight riding through a forest flanked by both the devil and death.
31 de may. de 2022 · HISTORY MAGAZINE. ‘Knight, Death, and the Devil’ elevated this artist to a Renaissance master. A Christian knight confronts life's temptations in Albrecht Dürer's 1513 engraving, considered...
Symbolism. Experts speculate that it was meant to illustrate a principle from the theologian Erasmus’s work on the virtues of a Christian Knight. The knight is an “everyman” devoted to living a good Christian life. He ignores both the distractions of the devil behind him and the worries of his own mortality, symbolized by death with his hourglass.
