PERFECTION'S THERAPY

Albrecht Dürer's famous portrayal of creative effort in paralysis, the unsurpassed masterpiece of copperplate engraving titled Melen colia I, has stood for centuries as a pictorial summa of knowledge about the melancholic temperament, a dense allegory of the limits of earthbound arts and sciences and the impossibility of attaining perfection. Dubbed the image of images for being the most zealou sly interpreted picture in the Western canon, Melencolia I also presides over the origins of modern iconology, art history's own sci ence of ...[Leer más]