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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.
Knight, Death, and the Devil. 1513. 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 hourglass of Time.
Dürer's Knight, Death, and the Devil is one of three large prints of 1513–14 known as his Meisterstiche (master engravings). The other two are Melancholia I and Saint Jerome in His Study.
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.
The Knight, Death and the Devil. In this brilliant depiction of calm, steely resistance to evil and mortality, the German artist Albrecht Dürer was probably influenced by the writings of his friend, the humanist philosopher Erasmus of Rotterdam who wrote in A Handbook for the Christian Soldier in 1504:
31 de may. de 2022 · The knight and his dog pass the perils of the world: a monstrous devil, and death— who is depicted as a grotesque figure astride a sickly horse and holding up an hourglass.
In Knight, Death, and the Devil Dürer’s finely detailed and tightly rendered lines create a shimmering effect on the horse’s coat and the knight’s armor. The meaning of the knight riding past the Devil and Death—shown with an hourglass in his hands—has puzzled generations of scholars.
