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
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Sacred and Profane Love
1514 · Galleria Borghese, Rome
Two women sit at either end of a sarcophagus full of water, and it is the naked one who stands for sacred love.
★ 7.5
The Moneylender and His Wife
1514 · Louvre, Paris
He weighs gold on a fine balance and her eyes drift off the prayer book toward the coins. A small mirror catches the room.
★ 6.7