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) [1] completed …

Riding steadfastly through a dark Nordic gorge, Dürer's knight rides past Death on a Pale Horse, who holds out an hourglass as a reminder of life's brevity, and is followed closely behind by a …

In Knight, Death, and the Devil Albrecht Dürer imagined an armored rider encountering two gruesome apparitions: a putrefying figure of Death brandishing an hourglass as a reminder of …

Oct 18, 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 …

In this tour de force engraving, considered one of his three greatest “masterworks,” Albrecht Dürer portrayed a mounted soldier who resolutely forges through a dark gorge, ignoring a horned …

May 2, 2025 · Dürer’s “The Knight, Death, and the Devil” is an engraving made in 1513, and is one of his three master prints. This image is full of symbolism and complex iconography that …

Dürer-Katalog; ein Handbuch über Albrecht Dürers Stiche, Radierungen, Holzschnitte, deren Zustände, Ausgaben und Wasserzeichen. Vienna: Verlag Gilhofer und Ranschburg, 1932. …

A knight in armor, and bearing arms, rides horseback, facing left, in profile. Death rides beside him, showing him an hourglass. A devil follows, his claws...

The knight has been identified with numerous historic figures, amongst them Martin Luther and Pope Julius II, but it is most likely that he symbolises the Christian knight who is impenetrable …

This virtuoso engraving by Dürer shows a lone knight riding through an oppressive landscape. A dog runs at his horse’s feet, and Death holds aloft an hourglass while the Devil stalks behind.