Melancholia (painting)
Melancholia is a 1532 oil on panel painting by Lucas Cranach the Elder, now in the National Gallery of Denmark in Copenhagen. The painting depicts three naked babies who, with the help of sticks, try to roll a large ball through the hoop. A winged woman, lost in thought, is slicing a cane, perhaps intending to make another hoop. She is the personification of melancholy, similar to the winged genius from the engraving of the same name by Dürer, executed 18 years before the painting of Cranach. According to the ideals of the Renaissance, the whole world was based on analogies. So, melancholy at that time was associated with Saturn, a dog, carpentry. Many details of the picture are a reference to these analogies: the jump of witches in a black cloud, and an army in which soldiers fall from th
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Melancholia (painting)
Melancholia is a 1532 oil on panel painting by Lucas Cranach the Elder, now in the National Gallery of Denmark in Copenhagen. The painting depicts three naked babies who, with the help of sticks, try to roll a large ball through the hoop. A winged woman, lost in thought, is slicing a cane, perhaps intending to make another hoop. She is the personification of melancholy, similar to the winged genius from the engraving of the same name by Dürer, executed 18 years before the painting of Cranach. According to the ideals of the Renaissance, the whole world was based on analogies. So, melancholy at that time was associated with Saturn, a dog, carpentry. Many details of the picture are a reference to these analogies: the jump of witches in a black cloud, and an army in which soldiers fall from th
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Melancholia est une peinture à ...... st de Copenhague, au Danemark.
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Melancholia is a 1532 oil on p ...... in which soldiers fall from th
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«Меланхолия» (нем. Melancholie ...... ршего, написанная в 1532 году.
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Melancholia (painting)
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Меланхолия (картина Кранаха)
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