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Summary

Albrecht Dürer: Melencolia I  wikidata:Q1362177 reasonator:Q1362177
Artist
Albrecht Dürer  (1471–1528)  wikidata:Q5580 s:en:Author:Albrecht Dürer q:en:Albrecht Dürer
 
Albrecht Dürer
Alternative names
Albrecht Dürer
Description German painter, printmaker, mathematician, illuminator, copper engraver and art theorist
Date of birth/death 21 May 1471  6 April 1528 
Location of birth/death Nuremberg  Nuremberg 
Work period 1484 –1528 
Work location
Nuremberg (1484–1490), Basel (1490–1494), Strasbourg (1490–1494), Colmar (1490–1494), Frankfurt (1490–1494), Mainz (1490–1494), Cologne (1490–1494), Nuremberg (21 May 1494–1528), Innsbruck (1494), Venice (1494–1495), 1505–1506), Bologna (1505–1506), Milan (1505–1506), Florence (1505–1506), Rome (1505–1506), Augsburg (1518), Antwerp (1521)
Authority file
creator QS:P170,Q5580
 
image of artwork listed in title parameter on this page
Title
Melencolia I 
title QS:P1476,en:"Melencolia I "
label QS:Len,"Melencolia I "
label QS:Les,"Melancolía I"
label QS:Lru,"Меланхолия"
label QS:Lde,"Melencolia I"
label QS:Lhy,"Մելանխոլիա I"
label QS:Lzh,"忧郁 I"
label QS:Lda,"Melencolia I"
label QS:Ltr,"Melencolia I"
label QS:Lja,"メランコリア I"
label QS:Lsv,"Melankolien"
label QS:Lhe,"מלנכוליה"
label QS:Lla,"Melencolia I"
label QS:Lzh-hant,"梅倫科利亞一世"
label QS:Lzh-cn,"梅伦科利亚一世"
label QS:Lfi,"Melankolia I"
label QS:Leo,"Melankolio I"
label QS:Lit,"Melencolia I"
label QS:Lfr,"Melencolia"
label QS:Lhr,"Melenkolija I"
label QS:Lvi,"Melencolia I"
label QS:Lsl,"Melancholia I"
label QS:Lpt-br,"Melancolia I"
label QS:Lko,"멜랑콜리아 I"
label QS:Lmk,"Меланхолија I"
label QS:Lpl,"Melancholia I"
label QS:Lnb,"Melencolia I"
label QS:Lnl,"Melencolia I"
label QS:Lpt,"Melancolia I"
label QS:Lfa,"ملانکولیا ۱"
label QS:Let,"Melencolia I"
label QS:Luk,"Меланхолія"
label QS:Laz,"Melanxoliya I"
label QS:Lar,"سوداوية 1 (ملنخوليا)"
label QS:Lzh-hans,"梅伦科利亚一世"
label QS:Lcs,"Melancholie I"
Part of Meisterstiche 
Object type copper engraving print 
Genre allegory 
Date 1514
date QS:P571,+1514-00-00T00:00:00Z/9
Medium copper plate
Dimensions height: 24.2 cm (9.5 in) ; width: 18.8 cm (7.4 in) 
dimensions QS:P2048,+24.2U174728
dimensions QS:P2049,+18.8U174728
institution QS:P195,Q163804
Accession number
33377 D
Place of creation Nuremberg 
Inscriptions
  • Melencolia I 
Notes
English: Melencholia I The bat-like creature flying through a night sky declares the subject of this famous engraving: Melencolia I. That dark temperament is personified by a female figure seated in the foreground. The winged infant beside her is a 'genius' (in the ancient sense, meaning an accompanying spirit).

Melancholy has wings and from her belt hang keys and a money bag, symbolizing power and wealth. She is surrounded by measuring instruments. Above her head is a panel of 'magic' numbers (they add up to 34 in all directions). At her feet are the tools that can fashion the material world. Yet she does nothing: lost in thought, she turns away from the light.

Renaissance philosophers had suggested a new interpretation for melancholy, as the temperament of genius (in the modern sense). Melancholy was possessed by artists, in whom 'Imagination' predominates; 'Reason' dominates scholars; while the final stage of 'Spirit' was the preserve of theologians. If this interpretation is correct, Dürer has presented us with a portrait of his mental behaviour, as he knew about the danger of too much spirital work as an artist. Although he was born in the name of Mercury, not Saturn and therefore after a letter from Beheim to Pirckheimer, not a melancholic.
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Albrecht Dürer's Melancholia I (1514) includes an order 4 square with magic sum 34

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