Melancholy  1532

by Lucas Cranach the Elder

With only a stick to help them, three nude boy children attempt to play a game, the object of which is to pass a large ball through a hoop. [br] A winged woman, lost in thought, splits a stick, seemingly in the process of making another hoop. [b]The female as a personification of Melancholy[/b] Through reference to a similar figure in an Albrecht Dürer print, the se...
Credit: 
Courtesy of the National Gallery of Denmark