Lucas Cranach the Elder, 1532 - Melancholy - fine art print

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Artwork information by the museum's website (© - by Statens Museum for Kunst (National Gallery of Denmark) - www.smk.dk)

With only a stick to help them, three nude boy children attempt to play a game, the object of which is to pass a large ball through a hoop.

A winged woman, lost in thought, splits a stick, seemingly in the process of making another hoop.

The female as a personification of Melancholy Through reference to a similar figure in an Albrecht Dürer print, the seated female has been read as a personification of Melancholy, one of the four temperaments. Renaissance scholars believed that the world was built from a system of correspondences. Melancholy was associated with Saturn, winter, the dragon, lead, and earth.

The other three were the choleric, the sanguine, and the phlegmatic temperaments. Each of these corresponded to other elements, metals, animals, and seasons. In Cranach’s painting, melancholy seems to be linked to something negative: a demonic witches’ ride takes place in a black cloud outside.

Martin Luther's perception of melancholy Perhaps Cranach’s Melancholy reflects his friend Martin Luther’s perception of melancholy as a ”bath of Satan” to be fought with ”spiritual joy” and faith in the Word of God. Whatever the case may be, the enigmatic nature of Cranach’s painting leaves it open to individual interpretation.

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This 16th century piece of art was created by the male German artist Lucas Cranach the Elder. This artwork belongs to the digital art collection of Statens Museum for Kunst (National Gallery of Denmark). With courtesy of - National Gallery of Denmark (public domain license).: . Further, the alignment is in landscape format and has a ratio of 2 : 1, which implies that the length is two times longer than the width. The painter Lucas Cranach the Elder was a European artist from Germany, whose style was primarily Northern Renaissance. The artist was born in 1472 in Kronach, Bavaria, Germany and died at the age of 81 in the year 1553 in Weimar, Thuringia, Germany.

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