Il cavaliere, la morte e il diavolo

Knight, Death and Devil

1513 · Print

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Il cavaliere, la morte e il diavolo è un'incisione a bulino (24,5x18,8 cm) di Albrecht Dürer, siglata e datata al 1513 e conservata, tra le migliori copie esistenti, nella Staatliche Kunsthalle di Karlsruhe.

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Con le parole del museo

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 devil in his path. Confronted by Death itself, crowned with snakes and holding an hourglass indicating mortality, the soldier and his faithful dog demonstrate the strength of righteousness required to stay upon the right path. The skull underfoot suggests that others have not been

so resolute. Indeed, this road of life is full of obstacles, with the city on the hill accessible, it seems, only by way of treacherous peaks.

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Scheda

Numero di inventario: 1943.3.3519

Che cosa raffigura

Seated figure Equus ferus caballus Costume Sword Uomo Monster

In catalogo

Stampe Bulino Rinascimento XVI secolo German Allegoria Germania

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Nel frattempo, nella vita di Albrecht Dürer

Tutta la vita

1507–1528 · Luogo di lavoro
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.