The Melencolia Manifesto
By (author) David Ritz Finkelstein
Publication date:
30 December 2016Length of book:
60 pagesPublisher
Morgan & Claypool PublishersDimensions:
254x178mm7x10"
ISBN-13: 9781681748597
Few artworks have been the subject of more extensive modern interpretation than Melencolia I by renowned artist, mathematician, and scientist, Albrecht Dürer (1514). And yet, did each of these art experts and historians miss a secret manifesto that Dürer included within the engraving? This is the first work to decrypt secrets within Melencolia I based not on guesswork, but Dürer’s own writings, other subliminal artists that inspired him (i.e., Leonardo da Vinci), the Jewish and Christian Bibles, and books that inspired Dürer (De Occulta Philosophia and the Hieorglyphica).