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DÜRER, Albrecht: Death and the Landsknecht

🖼 Death and the Landsknecht, 1510
Woodcut
London, United Kingdom

Death grasps a soldier's arm mid-stride, rendered in sharp line and shadowed detail with Northern precision. Dürer's engraving captures Renaissance anxieties about mortality and fate, transforming a common mercenary into everyman confronting the inevitable.

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