Art History Experience Gothic Melancholy With These Key Works by Caspar David Friedrich. The icon of Romanticism is being celebrated with major shows, marking 250 years since his birth.

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 ...

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 ...