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Tag Archives: Melancholy
1797: Reading a Book
Anne-Louis Girodet de Roussy-Trioson: Benoît Agnès Trioson Reading a Book (1797) Born Anne-Louis Girodet de Roucy in 1767, Girodet suffered the death of his father in 1784 and his mother in 1787. Dr. Benoît-François Trioson, a close friend of his … Continue reading
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Tagged 18th Century, Anne-Louis Girodet de Roussy-Trioson, Art, Books, Children, Fathers, France, Melancholy, Mothers, Painting
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1877: Hope Deferred, And Hopes And Fears That Kindle Hope
Charles West Cope: Hope Deferred, and Hopes and Fears that Kindle Hope; exhibited at the Royal Academy of Arts in 1877.
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Tagged 1870's, 19th Century, Charles West Cope, Digital Art, Great Britain, Melancholy, Painting, Women
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1883: You are Wheat and Belong in the Wheatfield
Pages from a letter from Vincent van Gogh to his brother Theo, 28 October 1883: to cause despondency for six months, until one eventually sees after all that one shouldn’t have let oneself be disoriented. There are two people whose intense … Continue reading
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Tagged 1880's, 19th Century, Animals, Art, Drawing, Gustave Doré, Horses, Letters, Melancholy, Netherlands, Oxen, Painting, Ravens, Theo van Gogh, Vincent van Gogh
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2007: Mes Maisons
Jean-François Fourtou: from Mes Maisons (2007) (source)
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Tagged 21st Century, Art, France, Houses, Melancholy, Miniatures
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1737: Anti-Depressant
It has been often related, and generally believed, that Philip V King of Spain, being seized with a total dejection of spirits, which made him refuse to be shaved, and rendered him incapable of attending council or transacting affairs … Continue reading
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Tagged 18th Century, Art, Corrado Giaquinto, Farinelli, Italy, Jean Ranc, King Philip V of Spain, Melancholy, Mental Health, Music, Opera, Painting, Spain
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1915: Impermanence
In 1915, Sigmund Freud published a short essay, “On Transience,” in which he addresses in a succinct and poetic way the ideas he had developed for his book Mourning and Melancholia (1917). For Freud, these two states—mourning and melancholia—are different … Continue reading
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Tagged 19th Century, 20th Century, Anton Hansch, Austria, Buddhism, Language, Lou Andreas-Salomé, Melancholy, Mental Health, Psychology, Rainer Maria Rilke, Sigmund Freud, WWI
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1991: Won’t Get Off the Ground
Anselm Kiefer: Melancholia (1990-1991). Made of lead, glass, steel, and ash. Found here.
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Tagged 20th Century, Airplanes, Anselm Kiefer, Germany, Melancholy, Mental Health
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1895: Melancholy
Magnus Enkell: Melancholie (1895) (source)
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Tagged 19th Century, Art, Finland, LGBTQ, Magnus Enkell, Melancholy, Mental Health, Mothers, Painting, Women
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