July 2011
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Portraits of Melancholy — I Dürer’s Melencolia I,...
Bats, like most nocturnal animals and other lovers of the dark, tend to carry connotations of evil. The fifteenth-century scientist and theologian Nicholas of Cusa wrote, “Just as the eye of a bat hides itself from the light of day, so does our soul’s eye hide from an understanding of what is clearest in nature.” Certainly the best known bat in all art before Goya’s flies in Melencolia I...
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