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🎨 Melencolia I, 1514
by Albrecht Dürer 🇩🇪
Engraving, 23.8 x 18.6 cm
Cleveland Museum of Art, USA

About the artwork:

The engraving features an array of symbolic elements and a central figure traditionally interpreted as a personification of melancholia—the winged figure of a woman, sitting in a despondent pose, surrounded by tools and scientific instruments that represent geometry and building. These tools are unused, suggesting a lull in creativity or a frustration of not reaching one's creative potential.

𝙋𝙝𝙮𝙨𝙞𝙘𝙖𝙡 & 𝘿𝙞𝙜𝙞𝙩𝙖𝙡 𝙋𝙖𝙞𝙣𝙩𝙚𝙧 🎨

𝚂𝚘𝚖𝚎𝚝𝚒𝚖𝚎𝚜 𝙸 𝚊𝚕𝚜𝚘 𝚝𝚊𝚔𝚎 𝚙𝚑𝚘𝚝𝚘𝚜📸

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So creative were the artists in the past, their imagination exceeded progress