http://www.artsconnected.org/resource/94766/knight-death-and-the-devil-gallery-label-current ArtsConnectEd.org Art Collector Set: Knight, Death, and the Devil: Gallery Label - Current http://www.artsconnected.org/images/favicon.png http://www.artsconnected.org/resource/94766/knight-death-and-the-devil-gallery-label-current 16 16 http://www.artsconnected.org/resource/94766/knight-death-and-the-devil-gallery-label-current Thu, 01 Jun 2006 00:00:00 -0400 <table cellspacing="0"> <tr> <td class="detail_label">Title</td> <td><h3>Knight, Death, and the Devil: Gallery Label - Current</h3></td> </tr> <tr> <td class="detail_label">Author</td> <td><h3>Minneapolis Institute of Arts</h3></td> </tr> <tr> <td class="detail_label">Date</td> <td><h3>2006-06-16</h3></td> </tr> <tr> <td class="detail_label" style="padding-right:7px;">Institution</td> <td>Minneapolis Institute of Arts</td> </tr> </table><br/>This is one of Albrecht Dürer's three incomparable Meisterstiche, or master engravings, which also include Saint Jerome in His Study (1514) and Melencolia I (1514), all of which were given by Jones to the M.I.A. Knight, Death, and the Devil is the artist's meditation on a life of action and moral strength in a world beset with temptation. The knight sits astride his superbly rendered horse like a good Christian soldier, rigidly facing forward and impervious to the symbols of sin and death around him. His dog, emblematic of fidelity, also points forward, dutifully undeterred by the lizard and skull in his path. http://www.artsconnected.org/resource/94766/knight-death-and-the-devil-gallery-label-current This is one of Albrecht Dürer's three incomparable Meisterstiche, or master engravings, which also include Saint Jerome in His Study (1514) and Melencolia I (1514), all of which were given by Jones to the M.I.A. Knight, Death, and the Devil is the artist's meditation on a life of action and moral strength in a world beset with temptation. The knight sits astride his superbly rendered horse like a good Christian soldier, rigidly facing forward and impervious to the symbols of sin and death around him. His dog, emblematic of fidelity, also points forward, dutifully undeterred by the lizard and skull in his path." type="image/jpeg" />This is one of Albrecht Dürer's three incomparable Meisterstiche, or master engravings, which also include Saint Jerome in His Study (1514) and Melencolia I (1514), all of which were given by Jones to the M.I.A. Knight, Death, and the Devil is the artist's meditation on a life of action and moral strength in a world beset with temptation. The knight sits astride his superbly rendered horse like a good Christian soldier, rigidly facing forward and impervious to the symbols of sin and death around him. His dog, emblematic of fidelity, also points forward, dutifully undeterred by the lizard and skull in his path." type="image/jpeg" />Copyright Minneapolis Institute of ArtsMinneapolis Institute of Arts