The knight of Death on his way to war accompanied by allegorical figures of Death and Sin. After a design by Albrecht Durer engraved by Wierick, 1564. Le chevalier de la mort. Woodcut by Huyot from Paul Lacroix’s La Vie Militaire et Religieuse au Moyen Age et a l’Epoque de la Renaissance, Military and Religious Life in the Middle Ages and the Renaissance, Paris, 1873.

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