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Engraving of a winged woman seated in thought beside a sphere, polyhedron and tools, under a banner reading Melencolia I and a radiant sky.

Melencolia I, engraving by Albrecht Dürer, 1514

A winged, crowned female figure sits with her head propped on her hand amid geometric solids, a polyhedron, a sphere, a hourglass, and a bell. A banner reading MELENCOLIA I hangs in a rainbow-like sky above a dark, cross-hatched engraving.

Artist
Albrecht Dürer (mentioned on object)
Date
1514
Medium
Source
Rijksmuseum
Size
3136 × 4000 px
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Public domain · Rijksmuseum marks it Public Domain Mark; made by 1514.
Rights checked 2026-11-05 · tier A · as stated by the source: Public Domain Mark (Rijksmuseum, image license https://creativecommons.org/publicdomain/mark/1.0/)

Credit (appreciated, not required for public-domain works): Rijksmuseum, Amsterdam

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