The association between soldiers, death and the Devil was already common by the early sixteenth century. Durer, as we have seen had used it to great effect in 1513, and his follower the Nuremberg artist Erhard Schoen introduced it with similar effect in his broadsheet from 1532 ‘Army train’ (Plate 3.7). Here in the train among supply-carts, prisoners of war, and pikemen death is represented by two skeleton lansquenets carrying scythes instead of pikes, while the Devil with the wings of the fallen anged as described in Book of Revealation (12:7-9) sits on a tired nag, holding an hour-glass in his hand and wearing a crown of thorns or spikes with a serpent in it. The crown neatly juxtapositions the Devil with Christ while apparently identifying him with Antichrist.. . . . Page 107
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