{"id":500,"date":"2012-07-03T16:49:02","date_gmt":"2012-07-03T21:49:02","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/bluecandlesociety.net\/?p=500"},"modified":"2012-07-03T17:50:07","modified_gmt":"2012-07-03T22:50:07","slug":"ritter-todteufel-und-hund","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/bluecandlesociety.net\/?p=500","title":{"rendered":"Ritter, Tod,Teufel, und Hund"},"content":{"rendered":"
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Okay, so we’ve got some theories about what everyone is up to here<\/p><\/div>\n

So I got myself a print of Albrecht D\u00fcrer’s Ritter, Tod und Teufel<\/em>, because I thought it was kind of neat.\u00a0 It came with a handy little sticker explaining what all the various things in the engraving represented, the knight, death, the devil, the armor, and so on.\u00a0 That led me to do a bit more research, and I see that there are several possible interpretations.\u00a0 For instance, I see that the print is meant to represent sanguinity, one of the four temprements (I have to admit the knight looks pretty sanguine, all things considered).\u00a0 Some people say the knight represents Christian faith and humanism, and others that he represents a greedy robber baron.\u00a0 In this latter interpretation, I’m guessing his armor is not meant to represent his Christian faith like it does in others.<\/p>\n

But what I haven’t been able to find any information on, is what is up with that dog<\/em>?\u00a0 I mean look at him.\u00a0 That is one laid-back dog (if anything he is more sanguine that the ol’ Ritter<\/em>,<\/p>\n

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But what is up with this dog?<\/p><\/div>\n

there).\u00a0 I’ve never seen a dog look so chill and have such a heavy-lidded expression, even ones that aren’t strolling along next to death and<\/em> the Devil.\u00a0 Actually, upon closer examination, we see that the horses are just ambling along while the dog is in a full-suspension gallop.\u00a0 Maybe he’s just passing through.\u00a0 Like, on the outside he’s calm, but inside he’s thinking “Whoa, man, this is a bad scene.\u00a0 Better just get on by and not make eye contact with any of these weirdos.” \u00a0But this is a writing blog, after all. \u00a0We really musn’t get sidetracked worrying about technical details of the dog, gaits and expressions and so on. \u00a0Metaphor and simile are our stock and trade as writers. \u00a0What is the dog doing allegorically<\/em>, that’s the question. \u00a0Anyone who has any ideas, feel free to let me know.<\/p>\n

Next time: and what is going on with that lizard?\u00a0 Why is the dog ignoring it, for one thing?<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

So I got myself a print of Albrecht D\u00fcrer’s Ritter, Tod und Teufel, because I thought it was kind of neat.\u00a0 It came with a handy little sticker explaining what all the various things in the engraving represented, the knight, death, the devil, the armor, and so on.\u00a0 That led me to do a bit […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[9,12],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-500","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-general-writing-things","category-metaphor"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/bluecandlesociety.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/500","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/bluecandlesociety.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/bluecandlesociety.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bluecandlesociety.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bluecandlesociety.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=500"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/bluecandlesociety.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/500\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/bluecandlesociety.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=500"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bluecandlesociety.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=500"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bluecandlesociety.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=500"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}