Hi Matthias, for me that phenomenon in Melencolia I is rather a comet. Fits also better into the symbolism of the piece. (like Tacitus, Plinius ect. as a sign of change, maybe downfall). Whack is the additional rainbow.
Btw. I really doubt, that that painting by Duerer can be interpreted as a naturalistic image of the Ensisheim Fireball or that it was intended to be. http://kuerzer.de/Duererens Ensisheim was a daylight fireball, plain day at noon. That drawing, there it's dark and night. And Duerer was a master of all techniques. And the exactness and the naturalistic quality of his observations in his drawings and painitings are legendary. So if he wanted to depict the Ensisheim bolide, I think, he would have made it in a different way. Best! Martin Turf piece http://de.academic.ru/pictures/dewiki/68/Duerer_the_large_turf.jpg Studies of an European roller http://farm5.static.flickr.com/4008/4302120743_b818b0b999.jpg http://images.zeno.org/Kunstwerke/I/big/TH0001.jpg Little owl. http://www.backtoclassics.com/images/pics/albrechtdurer/albrechtdurer_the_li ttle_owl.jpg Duerer in Japan... http://www.ihk-nuernberg.de/nbg/media/Grafiken/WiM-Bilder/duerer_weidenmuehl e.jpg.jpg Duerer in Africa... http://maquinazero.files.wordpress.com/2006/09/durer_negro.JPG -----Ursprüngliche Nachricht----- Von: [email protected] [mailto:[email protected]] Gesendet: Mittwoch, 17. November 2010 09:44 An: Martin Altmann; [email protected] Betreff: Re: [meteorite-list] Happy Birthday Ensisheim Yes, Martin, and as a later echo of Dürer's observation of the Ensisheim fall we might consider his famous copperplate print 'Melencolia I' (1514) with the radiant heavenly body in the skies http://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/1/14/Melencolia_I_(Durero).jpg Best, Matthias ----- Original Message ----- From: "Martin Altmann" <[email protected]> To: <[email protected]> Sent: Wednesday, November 17, 2010 2:30 AM Subject: Re: [meteorite-list] Happy Birthday Ensisheim Hi there, I guess that's the most comprehensive monograph about Ensisheim, By Ursula Marvin: http://kuerzer.de/Marvinens I think it was her, who ascribed that unsigned drawing by Albrecht Duerer, to be an observation of the fireball of the Ensisheim meteorite (which is told to be since so): http://kuerzer.de/Duererens Here btw a portrait of Sebastian Brant, the author of the famous broadsheet about the fall, also a drawing by Duerer: http://kuerzer.de/Duererbrant Salute to the oldest European fall - Elbogen. eeeeeeeeeeek.......... Martin, on the run -----Ursprüngliche Nachricht----- Von: [email protected] [mailto:[email protected]] Im Auftrag von [email protected] Gesendet: Dienstag, 16. November 2010 21:31 An: [email protected] Betreff: [meteorite-list] Happy Birthday Ensisheim Alan S. wrote: "Ensisheim is 518 years old" ______________________________________________ Visit the Archives at http://www.meteoritecentral.com/mailing-list-archives.html Meteorite-list mailing list [email protected] http://six.pairlist.net/mailman/listinfo/meteorite-list ______________________________________________ Visit the Archives at http://www.meteoritecentral.com/mailing-list-archives.html Meteorite-list mailing list [email protected] http://six.pairlist.net/mailman/listinfo/meteorite-list
