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Game of the goose
The domestic cat
Family of the satyr with obelisk
Fishing rod
Martin Schongauer
The Knight, Death and the Devil
Flowered and illustrated woodblock paper
Perspective view of Venice
Melencolia
Slab under the window
Four virtues
Broth cup with episodes of Napoleonic history
Rooster-shaped soup tureen
The Triumph of Bacchus and Ariadne, Apollo and the Muses
Vase
Psyche
Neo Rococo gallantry
Two friends
Dry

The Knight, Death and the Devil

Albrecht Dürer

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Sturm Palace

Sturm Palace

Via Schiavonetti, 40, Bassano del Grappa

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Together with the San Girolamo nella studio and the "Melencolia I", the burin belongs to the Meisterstiche series, whose execution takes place between 1513 and 1514. In his diary, Dürer names the print the "Knight" but the presence of other figures suggests a more complex iconography. The artist was probably inspired by Erasmus of Rotterdam's Enchiridion militis christiani, where the good Christian is compared to a soldier in the service of God, called to overcome the tests of existence thanks to faith. The armed knight riding his steed, flanked by Death and with the Devil behind him, would therefore allude to the path of the faithful towards God, symbolized by the castle in the distance, through the difficulties of life. The dog would mean religious faith and zeal. The figure of an armed knight also appears in an early Albertina drawing, very close to the engraved version. In the preparatory studies preserved in Milan, greater attention is paid to the anatomy and movement of the horse, on the basis of the proportions established by Leonardo.
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Title: The Knight, Death and the Devil

Author: Albrecht Dürer

Date: 1513

Technique: Burin engraving

Displayed in: Sturm Palace

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