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From chivalry to canons: a new image of war

The last section of the exhibition looks at popular sports among the nobility and royalty such as hunting and jousts. In addition to using traditional iconography, artists turned at this point to subjects from modern life including social conflicts and wars. This is the context in which to understand Dürer's treatise on fortifications, the illustration of the Peasants' War, the subject of lansquenet, and even his new, more direct and natural manner of representing power. This section also includes a selection of prints from Dürer's Apocalypse series, one of the most influential series for the transformation of the religious image.