# Allegory of Melancholy [View the canonical artwork record]() ## Artwork - Artist: [CRANACH, Lucas the Elder]() - Date: 1501-1550 - Technique: Oil and tempera on wood, 77 x 56 cm ## Commentary Four years after Cranach treated this subject based on Dürer's engraving, Cranach freed himself from Dürer's model. This is particularly evident in the figure of melancholy herself. Comparing with the engraving, an erotic dynamism rather than contemplative passivity can be observed in the painting. ## Related artworks - [A Faun and his Family with a Slain Lion \(detail\)]() - [A Faun and his Family with a Slain Lion]() - [A Prince of Saxony]() - [A Princess of Saxony]() - [Adam and Eve \(detail\)]() - [Adam and Eve]() - [Adam and Eve]() - [Adam and Eve]() - [Adam and Eve]() - [Adam and Eve]() - [Adam and Eve]() - [Adam and Eve]() ## Attribution [Web Gallery of Art]()