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Description: | RU s.d.in plate b.r. "1514 / AD (monogram)"; inscr. in plate t.l. "MELENCHOLIA S I" PRINT DURER, Albrecht; (German; 1471-1528) Display label: "Durer's Melancholia is as mysterious as it is influential. Against a landscape backdrop, the artist has assembled objects and instruments connected with making things, especially scientific aids for drawing in perspective. Melancholy is personified by a dark-faced, winged woman, crowned with laurel as a poet, in an image that is said to reflect the neo-Platonic belief of Marsilio Ficino, in his De Vita Triplici (Florence, 1489), that melancholy is an essential element of intellectual creativity. " | License: | http://www.hmag.gla.ac.uk/spirit/rights/ | Publisher: | Hunterian Museum and Art Gallery, University of Glasgow | Rights holder: | Hunterian Museum and Art Gallery, University of Glasgow | Subjects: | FIGURE : FEMALE : ALLEGORY : INTERIOR : NEO-PLATONISM : DOG : INFANT : RAINBOW : SEA : FSDI : LOST TREASURES : | Source: | Hunterian Museum | Creator: | Hunterian Museum and Art Gallery, University of Glasgow | Identifier: | http://www.huntsearch.gla.ac.uk/cgi-bin/... | Language: | en-GB | Go to resource |
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