The Knight (plate)
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The Knight (plate) is a woodcut from Hans Holbein the Younger’s "Dance of Death" series, depicting a skeletal figure confronting a knight to symbolize the inevitability of death.
Statements (40)
| Predicate | Object |
|---|---|
| instanceOf |
artwork
ⓘ
woodcut print ⓘ |
| artForm | printmaking ⓘ |
| artisticSchool | Basel school NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| associatedWith | Reformation-era moral commentary ⓘ |
| countryOfOrigin |
Germany
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Switzerland ⓘ |
| creator | Hans Holbein the Younger NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| depicts |
armed horseman
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armor ⓘ contrast between worldly dignity and mortality ⓘ horse ⓘ interaction between living and dead ⓘ knight ⓘ landscape background ⓘ moment of interruption in knight’s journey ⓘ personification of Death ⓘ skeletal figure ⓘ |
| genre | memento mori ⓘ |
| hasAuthor | Hans Holbein the Younger NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| hasHistoricalContext | early 16th century Europe ⓘ |
| hasIconography | Death as skeleton confronting a nobleman ⓘ |
| hasMoralMessage |
no social rank can escape death
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worldly valor is ultimately futile ⓘ |
| hasSeriesPosition | plate in the Dance of Death sequence ⓘ |
| hasStyle |
detailed line work
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strong contrasts of black and white ⓘ |
| influencedBy | late medieval Danse Macabre tradition ⓘ |
| languageOfInscription | Latin ⓘ |
| mainSubject |
confrontation between Death and a knight
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inevitability of death ⓘ |
| medium | woodcut ⓘ |
| movement | Northern Renaissance NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| partOfSeries | Dance of Death NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| printingTechnique | relief printing ⓘ |
| relatedWork | other plates in Holbein’s Dance of Death series ⓘ |
| seriesTheme | Dance of Death NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| symbolizes |
transience of earthly power
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universality of death ⓘ vanity of chivalric honor ⓘ |
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