Melancholia (painting)

Melancholy
Year 1532
Dimensions 66.3 cm (26.1 in) × 111.7 cm (44.0 in)
Location National Gallery of Denmark

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
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