Melancholy
Lucas Cranach the Elder · 1532
Why it's great
A winged woman sits on a step, sharpening a stick, while children play with a hoop and a group of riders gallops through the sky. Lucas Cranach the Elder painted it in 1532, and the dark mood is called melancholy.
Where to see it
📍 Statens Museum for KunstCopenhagen Municipality, Denmark
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Lucas Cranach the Elder was a German painter born in Kronach in 1472. He became court painter to the rulers of Saxony in Wittenberg, was a close friend of Martin Luther, and ran a busy workshop that made portraits, religious scenes and the first Protestant images. He died in Weimar in 1553.
