http://melancholystories.com/items/browse/tag/erotic+melancholy?output=atom <![CDATA[ Medical Case Studies on Renaissance Melancholy]]> 2017-01-26T11:57:49+00:00 Omeka http://melancholystories.com/items/show/51 <![CDATA[[The Power of Venus]]]> Cursus Vanitatis),  Blindness (Caecitas) is driving a cart of fools, pulled by Folly (Stultitia) & Lust (Voluptas), and pursued by Derision (Derisio).]]> 2011-08-26T19:00:19+00:00

Title

[The Power of Venus]

Description

The goddess Venus standing on a sphere crowns the head of those fallen at her feet once they had been hit by Cupid's arrows; following the path to Vanity (Cursus Vanitatis),  Blindness (Caecitas) is driving a cart of fools, pulled by Folly (Stultitia) & Lust (Voluptas), and pursued by Derision (Derisio).

Date

1587

Artist

Greuter, Matthaus

Author

Greuter, Matthaus

Note

The first image comes from the British Museum Research Website, while the second is freely available on the Europeana.eu database (shown as "public domain").

Call Number

AN546252001

Date

[1587]

Place

Strasbourg

Rights

© The Trustees of the British Museum (first image)
Public Domain (second image)

Original Format

etching

Physical Dimensions

21 X 30,4 cm
]]> http://melancholystories.com/items/show/15 <![CDATA[La Maladie d'Antiochus]]> 2011-08-26T18:31:56+00:00

Title

La Maladie d'Antiochus

Subject

Erasistratus, of Ceos, 3rd cent. B.C
Selucus Nicator, d. 280 B.C
Antiochus, d. 291 B.C
Stratonice

Description

Erasistratus, a physician, realising that Antiochus's illness is lovesickness for his stepmother Stratonice, by observing that Antiochus's pulse rate rises whenever he sees her. Engraving by P. Baquoy (1759-1829) after a drawing prepared A. Desenne (1785-1827) itself based on a painting by G. de Lairesse (1640-1711).

Date

1793

Artist

Baquoy, Pierre-Charles
Desenne, Alexandre Joseph

Author

Lairesse, Gérard de

Note

Erasistratus, a physician, realising that Antiochus's (son of Seleucus I) illness is lovesickness for his stepmother Stratonice, by observing that Antiochus's pulse rate rises when ever he sees her. Engraving by P. Baquoy (1759-1829) after a drawing prepared A. Desenne (1785-1827) itself based on a painting by G. de Lairesse (1640-1711).

Call Number

V0015930

Rights

© Wellcome Library, London

Title

La Maladie d'Antiochus

Original Format

line engraving

Physical Dimensions

34.2 x 49.3 cm
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