Albrecht Dürer1498
Four Angels Holding Back the Winds
Four angels stand at the corners of the earth holding back the four winds, while another angel rises with the seal of the living God to mark his servants (Revelation 7). A woodcut by Albrecht Dürer from his Apocalypse series (1498).
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About Albrecht Dürer
1471-1528 · German
Albrecht Dürer was a Nuremberg painter, printmaker, and theorist whose four great biblical woodcut cycles — the Apocalypse (1498), the Large Passion (1497–1511), the Life of the Virgin (1503–1511), and the Small Passion (1509–1511) — defined Northern Renaissance religious imagery and shaped Reformation-era visual theology across Europe.