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DÜRER, Albrecht: Knight, Death and the Devil

🖼 Knight, Death and the Devil, 1513
Engraving
245 × 188 cm
Karlsruhe, Germany

Armored knight rides resolute through shadowed landscape, flanked by skeletal Death and grotesque Devil. Dürer's 1513 engraving exemplifies Renaissance humanism—the knight embodies virtue and steadfast faith against mortality's inevitability.

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