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Saturn and MelancholyRaymond Klibansky

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Saturn and Melancholy

by Raymond Klibansky, Erwin Panofsky & Fritz Saxl

A classic study of the history of melancholy in natural philosophy, medicine, religion and art, from antiquity to the Renaissance. It traces the link between Saturn and the melancholic temperament and offers a famous interpretation of Dürer's Melencolia I.

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