Melenocolia-Secrets of the Magic Square-The 1

Published: October 22, 2014

[Magic Square Unannotated]
The Melencolia Magic Square-the 1

Copyright Dr. Elizabeth Garner, September 2, 2014, All Rights Reserved

[Magic Square Annotated]
The Secrets of the Magic Sqaure numeral 1

WHAT IS GOING ON HERE?

Our initial hypothesis was that many of the magic square panes, except for the obvious 9 pane, the 5 pane (which happens to be the symbols Margret used to refer to herself or her love, Hieronymous Munzer, Jerome, the Jerome that keeps getting skewed by Albrecht in all compositions about Jerome.

This numeral is located at the very right hand bottom of the magic square

[Melencolia I Detail]
The full magic square depicted in Melencholia.

The 1 is where the audiences were supposed to start reading, from right to left, and starting over again in the next row from right to left.

WHAT DOES IT MEAN?

It is surprising to see how much encoding was done with this single numeral that is also covered up by the hair and wreath of the Melencolia figure. That’s suspicious from the beginning:

  • 1. The orange arrow in the lower left of the corner points to a coffin
  • 2. The light pink arrow points to a coffin
  • 3. The light green/lime arrow points to a nautical cotter or lynchpin
  • 4. The orange circle points to a large coffin symbol
  • 5. The green arrow is pointing to the mystical sign of 4 merchant mark
[The 4 Witches Artwork]
Currently known as the 4 witches, it’s not about witches, it’s about family members, an autobiographical story.

6. The Red arrow under the numeral 1 is pointing to some sort of inscription. The letters backwards spell D, I-with an “A” Durer monogram connected with it, V A D, or if we spell it left to Right we have the name of King David with the Durer monogram included.