IIIF provides researchers rich metadata and media viewing options for comparison of works across cultural heritage collections. Visit the IIIF page to learn more. This painted metal model is of a ...

The distinctive three-dimensional shape in Albrecht Dürer’s 1514 engraving Melencolia I has been the subject of innumerous analyses and still no one is sure what it is or what it means. On the ...

For most people, the word “polyhedron” conjures up an image of a cube, a tetrahedron, or something similar—a solid figure with flat faces. If the polyhedron is regular, each face has the same size and ...

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Debate has continued for five centuries as to the artist’s true intention with the work, including with the title itself, since the significance of melancholy was up for debate in the Renaissance. The ...