Melancholy by Albrecht Dürer (1514)

Engraving of a seated winged figure with a sleeping dog, polyhedron, sphere, hourglass and magic square.

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Why is this public domain? Albrecht Dürer died in 1528; this work is in the public domain.

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Albrecht Dürer's 1514 engraving Melancholy shows a winged, laurel-crowned figure seated amid geometric solids, a polyhedron, a sphere, an hourglass, and a numbered magic square. A sleeping dog and a small winged child sit nearby, while a rainbow and a banner reading MELENCOLIA I appear in the sky. The fine hatched lines build the dense tonal shading across the scene.

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