Tátrai Vilmos szerk.: A Szépművészeti Múzeum közleményei 95. (Budapest, 2001)

LICHNER, MAGDOLNA: Additional material to establishing the subject of Jacopo Bassano's Sleeping shepherd

72. Albrecht Dürer: Sketch (Cards dormitans), c. 1510. Bayonne, Musée Bonnat in his compositions as an element to seemingly reinforce the praiseworthy or disapproved character. The said posture is generally known by Dürer 's engraving "Melancholy I". The Diirerian model is by no means as far from Venice as would dissuade us from alluding to a domain of meaning disclosed in Panofsky's paper

46 and to the figure of 'canis dormitans' or 'canis dormiens' in it (fig 72). 46 Klibansky, R. - Panofsky, E. - Saxl, F., Saturn and Melancholy, Cambridge 1964, 78. and 317-321. - about the kinship of acedia and its sister tristitia (sadness, sorrow, earnest) and about a new interpretation of melancholy, and about the figure of the dog; see further Lexikon der Christlichen Ikonographie II. ed. Kirschbaum. E. Herder V. Rom, Freiburg, Basel, Wien 1970, 334-335.