Dürer’s Meisterstiche

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Dürer’s Meisterstiche are a renowned trio of master engravings by Albrecht Dürer, celebrated for their technical virtuosity and complex symbolic content.

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Dürer’s Meisterstiche canonical 1
Dürer’s master engravings 1

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Predicate Object
instanceOf artwork series
series of prints
approximateDate c. 1513–1514
artHistoricalSignificance benchmark of Northern Renaissance engraving
high point of Dürer’s printmaking
artisticTechnique hatching and cross‑hatching
line engraving
artMovement Northern Renaissance NERFINISHED
associatedWith Christian humanism NERFINISHED
Renaissance theories of temperament
memento mori themes
countryOfOrigin Holy Roman Empire
creator Albrecht Dürer NERFINISHED
criticalReception celebrated for complex symbolic content
celebrated for technical virtuosity
depicts Saint Jerome NERFINISHED
devil
geometrical instruments
knight on horseback
magic square
personification of Death
personification of Melancholy
polyhedron
scholar in study
genre engraving
hasPart Knight, Death and the Devil NERFINISHED
Melencolia I NERFINISHED
Saint Jerome in His Study NERFINISHED
heldIn various museum print rooms worldwide
iconographicTheme active life
contemplative life
intellectual life
influenced iconography of melancholy in art
later European printmakers
languageOfTitle German
mainSubject Christian iconography
humanist symbolism
moral philosophy
material paper
notableWorkOf Albrecht Dürer NERFINISHED
numberOfWorks 3
period early 16th century
productionMethod copper engraving
translationOfTitle master engravings

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Melencolia I partOfSeries Dürer’s Meisterstiche
Knight, Death and the Devil partOfSeries Dürer’s Meisterstiche
this entity surface form: Dürer’s master engravings