#Melencolia_i

2025-05-01

@sknvlv

#Melencolia_i

The attached picture is not a print of the original copper plate
made by #AlbrechtDürer himself in 1514.

Instead it seems to be a print of a copy plate made by
Jan Wierix (1549 – c. 1620) in 1602.

commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Fil

One observable difference is the empty space between a an i in the text 'Melencolia i'.

Compare it e.g. with
commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Fil

Interesting question: Why did Wierix omit the original filler in this very significant position?

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