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melancholia
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MELANCHOLIA, med. jur. A name given by the ancients to a species of partial intellectual mania, now more generally known by the name of monomania. (q.v.) It bore this name because it was supposed to be always attended by dejection of mind and gloomy ideas. Vide Mania.,



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RC) Albrecht Dürer - Self-Portrait with a Fur Coat (1498), Apocalypse of St John woodcut series (1498), Self-Portrait with a Fur Coat (1500), Knight, Death and Devil (1513), Melencolia I (1514) The first time I saw a reproduction of Dürer's Self-Portrait with a Fur Coat, I thought it was a painting of Christ.
Pepper are straight out of Albrecht Durer's Melencolia I, and the engraving's symbolism of hourglass, numerology, astrology, and geometry--even of the carpenter's nails on the floor--is also strangely appropriate.
Durer's melencolia I: Plato's abandoned search for the beautiful.
 
 
 
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