Melancholia (Lucas Cranach the Elder, Copenhagen)
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Artist | Lucas Cranach the Elder ![]() |
Year | 1532 |
Medium | panel, oil paint |
Subject | melancholia ![]() |
Dimensions | 51 cm (20 in) × 97 cm (38 in) |
Location | National Gallery of Denmark, Denmark |
Accession No. | KMSsp722 ![]() |
Melancholia is a 1532 oil on panel painting by Lucas Cranach the Elder, now in the National Gallery of Denmark.
Bibliography
- Nicolas Barker: A poet in Paradise: Lord Lindsay and Christian art, 2000, p. 98.
- Charles Zika: The Wild Cavalcade in Lucas Cranach’s Melancholia Painting: Witchcraft and Sexual Disorder in 16th Century Germany, 1997, p. 65–70, p. 75, p.79, ill. fig. 13+14
- (in German) Günter Bandmann: Melancholie und Musik: Ikonographische Studien, 1960, pp. 73f, ill. fig. 28
- Raymond Klibansky: Saturn and Melancholy: Studies in the History of Natural Philosophy, Religion and Art, 1964, p. 383
- (in Italian) Cranach: l’altro rinascimento, 2010, kat. 12, omt. p. 164 og 16, ill. p. 166—167