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Melancholia I

Melancholia I
Albert Durer, 1514
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 Dinesh
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An emblem of the period is certainly Durer’s extraordinary ‘Melancholia I, in which melancholy is associated with geometry. . . . . .

The idea that melancholy is the fate of the studious was not in itself a novelty: the theme had already been dealt with, albeit in different ways, by Marsilo Ficino and Heinrich Cornelius Agrippa von Nettesheim. What was original was the commingling of ‘ars geomantica’ and ‘homo melancolicus,’ in which geometry acquires a soul and melancholy a full intellectual dimension: it is this double attribution that creates the melancholic Beauty that draws to itself, as in a vortex, previously traits such as the disquiet of soul typical of the Renaissance, and set itself up to a point of origin of the Baroque human type. ~ Page 228
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Albrecht Dürer
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