# Melancholy

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## Artwork

- Artist: [FETTI, Domenico](<https://beta.wga.hu/artists/fetti-domenico-r403919c7aa22ba>)
- Date: 1601-1650
- Technique: Oil on canvas, 179 x 140 cm

## Commentary

This complex allegory based on the figure of a girl meditating on a skull was inspired by a print by Dürer. Fetti, however, completely reworked the subject in a Baroque manner. The objects, the dog, and the foliage that we see all appear to add fleshy fullness to the picture. In doing so, Fetti was doubtless recalling the examples of sixteenth-century Venetian art. This painting became the symbol of the art of Domenico Fetti. It is known from various autograph versions as well as from several derivations executed by the workshop. &lt;p&gt; &lt;table align=left cellpadding=5 border=1 width=320 bgcolor=&#34;\#99cccc&#34;&gt; &lt;tr valign=middle&gt;&lt;td&gt;&lt;img src=&#34;/support/gif/listen.gif&#34; border=0 valign=middle&gt; Suggested listening \(streaming mp3, 2 minutes\):&lt;br&gt;&lt;a href=&#34;\#&#34; onClick=&#34;w=window.open \(&#39;/music1/19\_cent/massenet\_elegie.html&#39;, &#39;newWin&#39;, &#39;scrollbars=yes,status=no,dependent=yes,screenX=0,screenY=0,width=350,height=350&#39;\);w.opener=this;w.focus\(\);return true&#34;&gt;&lt;b&gt;Jules Massenet: Elegie&lt;/b&gt;&lt;/a&gt; &lt;/td&gt;&lt;/tr&gt;&lt;/table&gt;

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## Attribution

[Web Gallery of Art](<https://beta.wga.hu/pages/about>)