http://melancholystories.com/items/browse/tag/Anthropophagy?output=atom <![CDATA[ Medical Case Studies on Renaissance Melancholy]]> 2013-05-24T16:31:09+00:00 Omeka http://melancholystories.com/items/show/34 <![CDATA[The Werewolf]]> 2011-08-05T09:54:28+00:00

Title

The Werewolf

Artist

Cranach the Elder, Lucas

Author

Cranach the Elder, Lucas

Call Number

AN48708001

Date

1510-1515 (c.)

References

The British Museum Curator's Comments

Lit: D. Koepplin and T. Falk, Lucas Cranach: Gemälde - Zeichnungen - Graphik, 2 vols, exh. cat. Kunstmuseum Basel, 1974, no. 488; M. P. McDonald, Ferdinand Columbus: Renaissance Collector, British Museum, London, 2005.

Exhibition History


2002/3 Oct-Feb, London, Science Museum, Metamorphing
2004 June-July, Madrid, 'LaCaixa', Ferdinand Columbus
2004 Oct-Dec, Seville, Salon Alto del Apeadero, Ferdinand Columbus
2011 June-Nov, Sth Korea, Ulsan Museum, Fantastic Creatures/BM tour exh
2012 Jan-May, Hong Kong Museum of Art, Fantastic Creatures/BM tour exh
2012 London, BM, Shakespeare PROMISED

Rights

© The Trustees of the British Museum

Title

The Werewolf

Physical Dimensions

162 x 126 mm
]]> http://melancholystories.com/items/show/33 <![CDATA[Melancholici]]> 2011-08-26T21:34:37+00:00

Title

Melancholici

Artist

van Heemskerck, Maarten
Muller, Harmen Jansz

Note

Melancholy; Saturn holding a scythe devours a child and gnaws its leg; below a man hangs himself by the neck from a tree; another figure stoops over a globe with a compass and right-angle etc; after Heemskerck. 1566

Call Number

AN129924001

Date

1566

Rights

© The Trustees of the British Museum

Title

Melancholici

Physical Dimensions

205x230 mm
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