KNIGHT, DEATH AND THE DEVIL

It is one of the three "main prints" of Dürer. There are many explanations about sculpture. For some people, the knight is a devil's servant. However, most researchers have linked this picture to a paper written in Rotterdam's young Erasmus: Christian Soldier Handbook. It tells enthusiastic, fearless and faithful warrior to beat the evil forces. There is no symbol of Christianity in sculpture, but Durer's contemporaries believe that the knight is a pure warrior of the church and defends the Christian faith. He accompanies the dog - the symbol of truth, the demon - the symbol of temptation, and the hourglass death, reminding the vulnerability of life. Hourglass sand level shows that the Cavaliers still have enough time to complete his accomplishments. At the same time, the hero is a hunter, according to tradition, he leaves to the head and tail of the oak to ensure that he returns to safety from hunting. Rider's spear millet can be regarded as his trophy. In general, researchers believe that this sculpture is a symbol of active living.

In "Knight", "Death", "Satan" (1513), a devout Christian knight was laughed at by devil and death, rocking the rapidly exhausted hourglass and laughing at the soldiers over time. . Perhaps the tension and anxiety in Durer's printing resonate with the American poet Randall Jarrell in the fight against psychosis. In "Knight, Death and Devil", Jarrell explained at the beginning this scene: Cowhorn is crowned, shocked, beard and beard, death is the scarecrow - the head of his death - teatum. . . Jarrell's description is full of adjectives, so that the prints are full of details. This poem is an example of what critics call ekrafrasis. Oral explanation of visual artwork, usually paintings, photographs, sculptures, sometimes enamels, tapestries, quilts

Religious devotion is the main explanation of knights, deaths, devils. The art historian Jeroen Stumpel wrote as follows. "Knights may be related to the ideal image of a Christian knight, they are not afraid - they will walk in the way of salvation without retreating, being distracted by death and devils 'Never' (Stumpel 2013, p.258). Dürer himself called this sculpture Reuters, which means rider, as Charles Talbot pointed out, Hermann Green suggested this in 1875 The idea that the knight was threatened by death and the devil was written by Erasmus' Enchiridion militia Christian or "Christian Soldier's Handbook", "This was originally published in 1504" (Talbot 1971, 143 page). In the process of serving God, Christians considers this engraving as a call for faith and warns you not to be tempted from the outside.