Melancholia

1514 · Print

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Even after more than five centuries not all of the questions raised by this enigmatic print have been satisfactorily answered. What is certain is that melancholy (the humour associated with black gall), the temperament linked to creative genius as found in artists and scholars, is depicted here. The realisation that everything man creates is imperfect fills Melancholia with a deep, fathomless grief.

Rijksmuseum Amsterdam

Gegevens

Inventarisnummer: RP-P-OB-1237

Wat het toont

Melancholic temperament

In de catalogus

Prenten Renaissance 16e eeuw

Bronnen

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Afbeelding: Rijksmuseum Amsterdam — public domain

Intussen, in het leven van Albrecht Dürer

Het hele leven

1507–1528 · Werkzaam in
Nuremberg
1512
Emperor Maximilian I becomes his chief patron
From 1512 Emperor Maximilian I was Dürer's chief patron. For him Dürer and his workshop produced the Triumphal Arch, a giant woodcut 295 × 357 cm printed from 192 blocks and modelled on the triumphal arches of ancient Rome.
3 January 1512
Nuremberg's privilege against forgeries
Nuremberg's city council granted Dürer a privilege for the sale of his prints, with penalties for anyone who forged them.
1513–1516
Three years without painting
Complaining that painting did not pay enough to justify the time compared with his prints, Dürer produced no paintings from 1513 to 1516.
1514
Death of his mother
In the year of Melencolia I and St Jerome in His Study, the artist's mother, Barbara Holper, died.
1515
A life pension from the emperor
The perpetually cash-strapped Maximilian could not pay on time and offered to exempt the artist from city taxes, which the Nuremberg Council opposed. At Dürer's request the emperor granted him a life pension of 100 guilders a year from the sums Nuremberg paid into the imperial treasury.