
Melencolia I
1514 · Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York
A winged figure sits with her compass idle among abandoned tools, and no print in history has drawn more scholarly argument.
★ 8.6

A winged figure sits with her compass idle among abandoned tools, and no print in history has drawn more scholarly argument.

Two women sit at either end of a sarcophagus full of water, and it is the naked one who stands for sacred love.

He weighs gold on a fine balance and her eyes drift off the prayer book toward the coins. A small mirror catches the room.