Cleveland Museum of Art
Five Soldiers and a Turk on Horseback
Albrecht DürerLinkedCulture matchlcp-91cf98b472c5
- Date
- probably 1496
- Medium
- engraving
- Culture
- Germany, late 15th-early 16th Century
- Department
- Prints
- Institution
- Cleveland Museum of Art
- Object ID
- 127857
From LinkedCulture
Five soldiers crowd the foreground armed with halberds, spears, and swords, while a turbaned horseman rears up behind them on an unsettled horse. Albrecht Dürer made this engraving in Germany around 1496, signing it with his distinctive monogram at the bottom center. At a moment when the Ottoman Empire pressed hard against Christian Europe, Dürer used the precision of engraving to document the visual otherness of the armed Turk, making this print one of the earliest attempts in European printmaking to capture that confrontation in such careful detail.
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A group of men in medieval attire, including a mounted rider, stand in a forested area holding weapons.
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- Credit line
- Gift of Harry D. Kendrick
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