Symbolism of Albrecht Durer8217s 8220Master Engravings8221 Albrecht Durer completed the “Master Engravings” in the years 1513 and 1514. With these common chord engravings (Knight, Death, and Devil, St. Jerome in His Study, and Melencolia I) he reached the high point of his artistic tone and concentration. each print represents a different philosophical purview on the “worlds” respectively of action, spirit, and intellect. Although Durer himself evidently did not think of the three as a set, He sometimes sold or gave St. Jerome and Melencolia I as a pair.
In the engraving, Knight, Death, and Devil, it appears that the hero (the Knight) is gaining a moral victory over death. (Fig. 1) The Knight has often been taken as Erasmus’s sturdy Christian soldier who scoffs at death and the devil as he goes about theology’s work in his journey through life. The desire of the ‘Christian soldier’ embodies and ideal of ma...If you want to get a full essay, order it on our website:
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