Albrecht Dürer's Melencolia I has cut its black lines deep into the modern imagination. It shows a winged being who sits in apparent dejection, surrounded by unused objects of science, craft and art, ...

The distinctive three-dimensional shape in Albrecht Dürer’s 1514 engraving Melencolia I has been the subject of innumerous analyses and still no one is sure what it is or what it means. On the ...

Space to play or pause, M to mute, left and right arrows to seek, up and down arrows for volume. Northern Renaissance artist Albrecht Dürer’s engraving 'Melencolia I' is five hundred years old this ...

Albrecht Dürer, a master painter and engraver of the German Renaissance, made his Melencolia I in 1514, just over five centuries ago. It is one of the most brilliant engravings of all time, and among ...

Albrecht Dürer’s Melencolia I (1514) is one of the world’s most famous and mysterious prints. The immensely detailed engraving depicts the personification of ‘melancholy’—one of the four ...

It has been 500 years since Nuremberg artist Albrecht Durer created his master-print, Melencolia I. Art historian Dr. Janina Ramirez explores the creative influence and mysteries of this iconic image.

Melencolia is based on Abrecht Dürer's 1514 engraving by the same name, created during Germany's horrific Peasants' Wars. However, these prominent jazz and avant-garde artists unite the brighter side ...