Knight, Death, and the Devil

1513 · Print

Can I see it?

Yes, on view now

Where is “Knight, Death, and the Devil” now? Harvard Art Museums, Gallery 3610, floor 3, University Teaching Gallery, Cambridge. Yes, on view now. Checked September 29, 2026.

Harvard Art Museums

Cambridge, United States

Room3610, floor 3, University Teaching Gallery

On public display.

Checked: 12 days ago
In this state since: Sep 27, 2026
Source: The museum

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Accession number: G1111

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Prints Engraving Renaissance 16th century German

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Harvard Art Museums
Image: Harvard Art Museums — © President and Fellows of Harvard College

In the life of Albrecht Dürer

The whole life

1507–1528 · Workplace
Nuremberg
1511
Publishes the Great Passion and the Life of the Virgin
Dürer published two woodcut series as books, the Great Passion and the Life of the Virgin, with a second edition of the Apocalypse and the 37 woodcuts of the Little Passion. His post-Venetian woodcuts developed chiaroscuro modelling.
1512
Emperor Maximilian I becomes his chief patron
From 1512 Emperor Maximilian I was Dürer's chief patron. For him Dürer and his workshop produced the Triumphal Arch, a giant woodcut 295 × 357 cm printed from 192 blocks and modelled on the triumphal arches of ancient Rome.
3 January 1512
Nuremberg's privilege against forgeries
Nuremberg's city council granted Dürer a privilege for the sale of his prints, with penalties for anyone who forged them.
1514
Death of his mother
In the year of Melencolia I and St Jerome in His Study, the artist's mother, Barbara Holper, died.
1515
A life pension from the emperor
The perpetually cash-strapped Maximilian could not pay on time and offered to exempt the artist from city taxes, which the Nuremberg Council opposed. At Dürer's request the emperor granted him a life pension of 100 guilders a year from the sums Nuremberg paid into the imperial treasury.