Four Horsemen of the Apocalypse Spielkarten

Four Horsemen of the Apocalypse by Albrecht Durance, 1497-1498, is a woodcut print depicting the White, Black, Red and Pale horses with riders from the Bible's Book of Revelations by Saint John. Durs fierce, macabre horsemen, instrumente of Divine judgment, rush furiously forth across earth, sky and clouds, trampliing kings and common folk alike underfoot as a winged angel flies overhead. This early woodcut was among the widely disseminated prints which secured Durs reputation as one of the greatest artists of his day. Albrecht Dürer (1471-1528) was a German painter of the Northern Renaissance whose as an mäver, printmaker, mathematician and theorist secured his reputation as one of the greatest artists of Europe. His many paintings, Portraits, Altarpities, watercolors, and engravings were the first in the Northern Renaissance to use classical motive from antiquity and the Italian Renaissance. Durs unparallele Skill in drawing and engraving as well as mastery of perspective allowed him rapid execution of a range of which elicit universal admiration to this day.