Engravings for Sermon "On the Art of Dying Well" by Girolamo Savonarola: between Melancholy and Acedia
The article explores one of the engravings for «On the art of dying well» (1496, a sermon by Girolamo Savonarola The author analy- ses the central image of the young man, his posture and gestures that are directly connected to the iconography of acedia which had been fully formed by this period. She compares the image and the text and reveals mutual inﬂuence of the medieval and renaissance interpretations of the melancholy (or acedia) and the impact of this concept on the engraving.