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Lucas Cranach the Elder: Melancholia  wikidata:Q56648748 reasonator:Q56648748
Artist
Lucas Cranach the Elder  (1472–1553)  wikidata:Q191748
 
Lucas Cranach the Elder
Alternative names
Lucas Cranach
Description -German painter, drawer, printmaker and court painter
Date of birth/death 4 October 1472 Edit this at Wikidata 16 October 1553 Edit this at Wikidata
Location of birth/death Kronach Weimar
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Lutherstadt Wittenberg
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artist QS:P170,Q191748
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French:
La Mélancolie Edit this at Wikidata

Melancholy
label QS:Lfr,"La Mélancolie"
label QS:Lde,"Die Melancholie"
label QS:Len,"Melancholy"
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Object type painting
object_type QS:P31,Q3305213
Genre allegory Edit this at Wikidata
Date 1532
date QS:P571,+1532-00-00T00:00:00Z/9
Medium oil on panelmedium QS:P186,Q296955;P186,Q106857709,P518,Q861259
Dimensions height: 76.5 cm (30.1 in) Edit this at Wikidata; width: 56 cm (22 in) Edit this at Wikidata
dimensions QS:P2048,+76.5U174728
dimensions QS:P2049,+56U174728
institution QS:P195,Q1851283
Accession number
83.5.1
Place of creation Germany Edit this at Wikidata
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La Mélancolie acquise par le musée d’Unterlinden en 1983 s’inspire sans conteste d’une gravure sur le même thème que Dürer réalise en 1514. Sujet de réflexion depuis l’Antiquité, la mélancolie participe de la théorie médicale des quatre humeurs dont l’équilibre relatif conditionne la santé de l’homme. À l’opposé du Moyen Âge, la Renaissance valorise cet état et l’associe au tempérament artistique pour en faire le ferment de toute création. Cranach emprunte des motifs à Dürer mais les transpose pour illustrer un des prêches de Luther visant à dénoncer la mélancolie comme un état propre à un être influencé par Satan et contre lequel il faut boire et manger.

Plus que tout autre peintre contemporain, Lucas Cranach l’Ancien (Cranach, 1472 - Weimar, 1553) a été fortement marqué au début du XVIe siècle par les pensées de Luther qui travaille pour le prince électeur de Saxe acquis à la Réforme. Dans la peinture de Cranach, plusieurs motifs restent encore à expliquer, notamment la figure de la femme ailée pelant une baguette qui est sans doute une allusion au désœuvrement propice à la mélancolie.

Écho des recherches menées par les artistes de la Renaissance italienne qui pénètrent largement en Allemagne au début du XVIe siècle, le fond de la scène s’ouvre, tel une fenêtre, sur un paysage naturel dans lequel la perspective est construite par le dégradé des couleurs du ciel.
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Source/Photographer originally posted to Flickr as Alsace, Haut-Rhin, Colmar, Musée d'UnterLinden : Lucas Cranach l'Ancien " La Mélancolie ", 1532. by Flickr user vincent desjardins, Taken in 27 December 2008, 10:53
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