DSST Art of the Western World Exam Prep

Answer - C - The Four Horsemen of the Apocalypse are war, pestilence, death, and famine.

Key Takeaway: The Four Horsemen of the Apocalypse is a late Renaissance woodcut figure by Albrecht Dürer that portrays the four horsemen as they are described in the last book of the New Testament, the Book of Revelation. In it, the four horsemen come to proclaim the end of the world and to destroy life with their weapons: war, pestilence, death, and famine. The figure was completed in 1498 and shows no dividing line between earth and heaven. A very violent piece, the dead are trampled under the large, riding forms.