So interesting! I love that something that is used as a diagnosis is also used to describe a particular style. Makes me wonder what other similar concepts are out there that serve this double duty!
The term “melancholia” as a diagnosis always reminds me of Abraham Lincoln—I’ve read that this was a defining feature and driving force of his leadership.
Really interesting read. I hadn’t realised that Durer lived as recently as 20th-century. His art style seems so much older - very apt that you included a reference to Michaelangelo, as that’s more the period that Durer’s work feels like it should come from to me. (The Sick Durer, that you included here is very reminiscent of Leonardo Da Vinci’s drawings, for example.)
I went back and looked ... I had initially submitted that Durer article to a website, which published it, and then it went into a book, which was edited by multiple people before publishing, and none of us caught that I said 1900s instead of 1500s. Good eye!!!
So interesting! I love that something that is used as a diagnosis is also used to describe a particular style. Makes me wonder what other similar concepts are out there that serve this double duty!
The term “melancholia” as a diagnosis always reminds me of Abraham Lincoln—I’ve read that this was a defining feature and driving force of his leadership.
Fascinating. I often appreciate the special insights of our forbears. They did not have the "cures" that we "enjoy".
Really interesting read. I hadn’t realised that Durer lived as recently as 20th-century. His art style seems so much older - very apt that you included a reference to Michaelangelo, as that’s more the period that Durer’s work feels like it should come from to me. (The Sick Durer, that you included here is very reminiscent of Leonardo Da Vinci’s drawings, for example.)
Oh you are right of course! That’s a typo I apparently didn’t catch!!!
I went back and looked ... I had initially submitted that Durer article to a website, which published it, and then it went into a book, which was edited by multiple people before publishing, and none of us caught that I said 1900s instead of 1500s. Good eye!!!
Sorry, wasn’t trying to nitpick - it just hit me that the style was so much older 😊
No I am glad you caught it!