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Melancholia
Artist Lucas Cranach the Elder
Year1532
Medium oil paint on panel
Movement Northern Renaissance
allegory
Subject Melancholia
Dimensions76.5 cm × 56 cm (30.1 in × 22 in) [1]
Location Unterlinden Museum, Colmar
Accession1983

Melancholia is a 1532 oil painting by the German artist Lucas Cranach the Elder. It is now in the Unterlinden Museum in Colmar, France. Its inventory number is 83.5.1. [2]

This vertical painting belongs to a series of four works inspired by Albrecht Dürer's seminal 1514 engraving Melencolia I. [2] The National Gallery of Denmark in Copenhagen owns a horizontal version from the same year which presents a number of similarities. The Colmar version is accepted as a work largely painted by Lucas Cranach the Elder himself, but with a possible contribution of the 19-year-old Hans Cranach, which would account for the softness of the brushstrokes in some parts. [3]

References

  1. ^ "La Mélancolie". museesgrandest.org. Retrieved 1 April 2023.
  2. ^ a b Haas, Magali (April 2016). Le musée Unterlinden - Guide des collections. Paris: Éditions Artlys. pp. 146–147. ISBN  978-2-85495-625-2.
  3. ^ "Die Melancholie". lucascranach.org. Retrieved 1 April 2023.

Media related to Melancholia (Lucas Cranach (I), 1532) at Wikimedia Commons

From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
Melancholia
Artist Lucas Cranach the Elder
Year1532
Medium oil paint on panel
Movement Northern Renaissance
allegory
Subject Melancholia
Dimensions76.5 cm × 56 cm (30.1 in × 22 in) [1]
Location Unterlinden Museum, Colmar
Accession1983

Melancholia is a 1532 oil painting by the German artist Lucas Cranach the Elder. It is now in the Unterlinden Museum in Colmar, France. Its inventory number is 83.5.1. [2]

This vertical painting belongs to a series of four works inspired by Albrecht Dürer's seminal 1514 engraving Melencolia I. [2] The National Gallery of Denmark in Copenhagen owns a horizontal version from the same year which presents a number of similarities. The Colmar version is accepted as a work largely painted by Lucas Cranach the Elder himself, but with a possible contribution of the 19-year-old Hans Cranach, which would account for the softness of the brushstrokes in some parts. [3]

References

  1. ^ "La Mélancolie". museesgrandest.org. Retrieved 1 April 2023.
  2. ^ a b Haas, Magali (April 2016). Le musée Unterlinden - Guide des collections. Paris: Éditions Artlys. pp. 146–147. ISBN  978-2-85495-625-2.
  3. ^ "Die Melancholie". lucascranach.org. Retrieved 1 April 2023.

Media related to Melancholia (Lucas Cranach (I), 1532) at Wikimedia Commons


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