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Melencolia I is a large 1514 engraving by the German Renaissance artist Albrecht Dürer. Its central subject is an enigmatic and gloomy winged female figure thought to be a personification of melancholia – melancholy. Holding her head in her hand, she stares past the busy scene in front of her.
One of Albrecht Dürer’s three master engravings, Melencolia I (1514) has been linked by scholars to alchemy, astrology, theology, and philosophy, among other themes.
Melancholia is a 2011 science fiction drama film written and directed by Lars von Trier and starring Kirsten Dunst, Charlotte Gainsbourg, and Kiefer Sutherland, with Alexander Skarsgård, Brady Corbet, Cameron Spurr, Charlotte Rampling, Jesper Christensen, John Hurt, Stellan Skarsgård, and Udo Kier in supporting roles.
May 26, 2011 · Melancholia: Directed by Lars von Trier. With Kirsten Dunst, Charlotte Gainsbourg, Alexander Skarsgård, Brady Corbet. Two sisters find their already strained relationship challenged as a mysterious new planet threatens to collide with Earth.
Melencolia I. Albrecht Dürer 1514. Museum of Fine Arts, Budapest. Budapest, Hungary. In 1513-1514, Dürer made three "master engravings ", similar in format, among them Melencolia I, whose...
Dürer ’s personification of the melancholic temperament in his most famous print, Melencolia I, shows a brooding, inactive figure who sits under an hourglass, weighed down by her own thoughts and...
Dürer's Melencolia I is one of three large prints of 1513 and 1514 known as his Meisterstiche (master engravings). The other two are Knight, Death, and the Devil (43.106.2) and Saint Jerome in His Study (19.73.68).
