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Four Horsemen of the Apocalypse

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Four Horsemen of the Apocalypse

Albrecht Dürer

c. 1498
Woodcut

About This Work

Four riders representing Conquest, War, Famine, and Death gallop across the composition, crushing victims beneath their horses' hooves. Above them, an angel descends from the clouds, and the ground below is littered with the bodies of clergy, peasants, and rulers caught in the path of the destruction.

This image serves as a powerful visual meditation on the eschatological themes central to late medieval and early modern Christian apocalypticism. Its stark depiction of the end-times reflects the era's profound preoccupation with divine judgment and the transition of the physical world into the spiritual realm.

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Inscriptions

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Connected Texts

Book of Revelation

The print is a direct visual adaptation of the narrative found in Chapter 6 of the Book of Revelation.

Provenance & Source

Object

Medium

Woodcut

GenreAI

religious

Digital Source

Source

Wikimedia Commons · Public domain

Credit

Bibioteca Nacional Digital - Brasil: info; file

Usage Terms

Public domain

Original Resolution

1000 × 1405 px

SHA-1

22bc404896470fd2dd646fd019931227fd13585e

Upload Date

August 1, 2015

Harvested

April 14, 2026

Linked Data

AI AI-cataloged fields generated by gemini-3.1-flash-lite-preview on April 14, 2026. Getty identifiers are AI-inferred and may require verification.

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