A speech analyzing this work is appended to the 1972 publication From the Journal of a Snail.
A speech analyzing this work is appended to the 1972 publication From the Journal of a Snail. The artist produced a less famous work entitled "The Knight" with the same materials a year before completing this work. The small figure at center rests his left foot near a piece of rope and looks straight down, while the man next to him gazes off to the left with a wreath on his head. Three nails lie on the ground at bottom-right next to a saw and a plane. The rainbow in the background as well as the crucible, a magic square of the fourth order, the seven-runged ladder, a large polyhedron, and the graduated scales are all symbols of alchemy. FTP, name this 1514 copper engraving by Albrecht Durer about the saddest of the four temperaments.
A speech analyzing this work is appended to the 1972 publication From the Journal of a Snail.
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