Five Landsknechte and an Oriental Man on Horseback

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Five Landsknechte and an Oriental Man on Horseback

Albrecht DürerLinkedCulture matchlcp-6cf5b58b91f0

Date
c. 1495
Medium
Engraving in black on ivory laid paper
Culture
Germany
Department
Prints and Drawings
Institution
Art Institute of Chicago
Object ID
111843

Dürer may have been the first printmaker to engrave a group of Landsknechte, a theme that proved exceedingly popular, as the adjoining prints by Urs Graf, Master M. Z., and Daniel Hopfer confirm. The Master M. Z. engraving may be the second earliest such image, and it borrows costuming and stances from this sheet. In a large, early woodcut seen nearby, Dürer popularized the knight and Landsknecht genre, highlighting the hierarchy between mounted cavalry and foot soldiers.

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Clarence Buckingham Collection

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