For his oil-on-panel painting Melancholy (1532), Dürer’s contemporary, Lucas Cranach the Elder, recasts in the crispest of German Renaissance colours many of the same elements we find in the ...

Each painting in his 22-piece series The Frieze of Life, which included his famous work “The Scream”, addresses a different emotion and inner state. “Melancholy” deals with the condition ...

Weird Melancholy is a collection of fairly traditional landscape paintings with the occasional photograph, all from the Ian Potter collection. But in this context, the works are unsettling. The ...

The focus of the Jon Fosse novels Melancholy I-II is Lars Hertervig, the troubled 19th-century Norwegian landscape painter. Suffering from hallucinations and deep depression, Hertervig was ...