The Four Horsemen of the Apocalypse

I am currently reading Good Omens, co-written by Neil Gaiman and Terry Pratchett, a story of the coming of the apocalypse. It is extremely irreverent in a satirically humorous way so I am enjoying it very much. On pages 308-309 of the paperback edition, there is some discussion between Death and the other three famed Four Horsemen.

War, Famine and Pollution are abjectly disappointed with their Armageddon-catalyzing roles which apparently have been diminished so embarrassingly when for thousands of years they had envisioned something quite spectacularly dramatic and exciting. As War points out, Albrecht Dürer's woodcut of The Four Horsemen did not depict them as simply pushing a button here and perhaps twiddling with a wire there. As can be evidenced from the image above, War is indeed correct.

I was introduced to Albrecht Dürer's work by an art historian, the instructor of two wonderfully illuminating humanities classes.

This is Dürer's self-portrait in which he looks rather like a handsome yet somewhat pensive rock star, don't you think?