The third and most famous woodcut from Dürer's series of illustrations for The Apocalypse, the Four Horsemen presents a dramatically distilled version of the passage from the Book of Revelation (6:1–8): "And I saw, and behold, a white horse, and its rider had a bow; and a crown was given to him, and he went out conquering and to conquer.

Four Horsemen of the Apocalypse (by Arnaldo dell'Ira, neo-Roman project of mosaic, 1939–1940). This fourth, pale horse, was the personification of Death, with Hades following him, jaws open and receiving the victims slain by Death.

Dec 7, 2021 · In Vasnetsov’s Four Horsemen of the Apocalypse painting version, he depicts the Four Horsemen in successive order and in their respective colors with their weapons. We see the white Lamb of God in the sky directly above the apocalyptic scene.

Fanged reptilian creature and a Bishop (detail), Albrecht Dürer, The Four Horsemen of the Apocalypse, 1498, woodcut, 38.8 x 29.1 cm (The Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York)

The finest impressions were most often printed without text, like this one of The Four Horsemen. Here, Dürer suggested the vigorous momentum of the horsemen through the windblown clothing of the riders, the windswept clouds, and the figures trampled beneath the hooves of the approaching horses.

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The Apocalypse, properly Apocalypse with Pictures (Apocalypsis cum Figuris) is a famous series of fifteen woodcuts by Albrecht Dürer of scenes from the biblical Book of Revelation published...

The Apocalypse — The Four Horsemen is a Northern Renaissance Wood Block Print created by Albrecht Dürer in 1498. It lives at the Metropolitan Museum of Art in New York . The image is in the Public Domain , and tagged Apocalypse and Print .

Oct 10, 2018 · In one of his most famous and often reprinted woodcuts, Four Horsemen of the Apocalypse, Dürer compresses these apocalyptic images into one scene (see Rev. 6:1–8). The far horseman, drawing his bow, represents Pestilence.

Here, Dürer suggested the vigorous momentum of the horsemen through the windblown clothing of the riders, the windswept clouds, and the figures trampled beneath the hooves of the approaching...