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Four Elements
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Master Works of Albrecht Dürer
Three engravings from Dürer’s opus are considered as outstanding: Knight, Death, and Devil, Melencolia I, and Jerome in his Study. But there is another engraving, the fourth, that could be counted among master works providing an astonishing beginning of a symbolic journey...
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Fall of Man
Dürer’s symbolic narration begins with, whom else, but Adam and Eve in the Garden of Eden just before the loss of bliss which is ignorance. It’s a natural mark of the beginning. Durer’s engraving as homage to famous Renaissance polymath Leon Battista Alberti...
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Knight Death Devil-Knight Templars
Curiously, but some of the elements from the engraving Knight, Death, and Devil resemble some well-known attributes of the Knights Templar. Let’s mention just the infamous inverted pentagram. Also about possible Dürer’s homage to the martyred Grand Master Jacques de Molay...
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Knight Death Devil-Path of Adepti
There are some indices that Dürer could have used the principles of Kabbalah embedded in his engravings. Artist’s occult knowledge would not be surprising since he was a friend of the Renaissance magicians like Agrippa von Nettesheim or Johannes Trithemius...
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Secret identity of Jerome
Saint Jerome in His Study symbolically represents a solitary prayer in the inner sanctuary of the temple called man. Read about possibility that Dürer’s Jerome is no one else but Leonardo da Vinci...
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Melencolia I
The fourth in a row comes the most famous of them all, Melencolia I. The first part explains the basic methods Dürer used for the encoding of his “messages”...
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Il Pensiero
The famous figure of the seating melancholic angel from Melencolia I possibly has a precedent! Read an interpretation suggesting that Dürer’s most famous engraving could be homage to the most melancholic genius of the Italian Renaissance...
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Melencolic Structure of Universe
The last engraving seems to synthesize all the previous and displays the overall underlying structure used. More on the Tree of Life...
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Middle Pillar
Dürer’s sequence of engravings projected on the kabbalistic Tree of Life. They can be arranged as symbolic successive stations adventured and eventually conquered by anyone born onto this planet...
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Mithraic Ladder
The sequence of four Dürer’s engravings seen as a map of heavens. The celestial bodies are also symbolic representatives of the specific stage of initiation in ancient mystery cults that could have been revived during the Renaissance...
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