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Lucas Cranach the Elder: An Allegory of Melancholy  wikidata:Q27970315 reasonator:Q27970315
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 Edit this at Wikidata Weimar Edit this at Wikidata
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artist QS:P170,Q191748
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Title
German:
Die Melancholie Edit this at Wikidata

An Allegory of Melancholy
title QS:P1476,de:"Die Melancholie Edit this at Wikidata"
label QS:Lde,"Die Melancholie Edit this at Wikidata"
label QS:Len,"An Allegory of Melancholy"
Object type painting
object_type QS:P31,Q3305213
Genre allegory Edit this at Wikidata
Date 1528
date QS:P571,+1528-00-00T00:00:00Z/9
Medium paint on panel
medium QS:P186,Q174219;P186,Q106857709,P518,Q861259
Dimensions height: 113 cm (44.4 in); width: 72 cm (28.3 in)
dimensions QS:P2048,113U174728
dimensions QS:P2049,72U174728
institution QS:P195,Q942713
Current location
Accession number
NGL 003.93
Object history collection Dr. Friedrich Campe, Nuremberg
1993 Private collection
institution QS:P195,Q768717
Credit line Private Collection on long term loan to the National Galleries of Scotland, 1993
Inscriptions
Artist's insignia right of centre on the wall of the balustrade: 'MELENCOLIA', beneath the serpent with elevated wings, facing left between the paired numbers of the date '1528'
Notes Friedländer, Rosenberg (1978) No.: FR277A
References Cranach Digital Archive
Source/Photographer National Gallery of Scotland

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