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Illness and Diseases


Famine, Plague, etc.



5 subcategories
Famine

FAMINE

Insanity

INSANITY

Leprosy

LEPROSY

Patients and Invalids

PATIENTS AND INVALIDS

Plague

PLAGUE

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The son of Petrus Gonzalvus was examined in 1596 by the same physician who had made a detailed study of his father's glandular disturbance. The three paintings of the Gonzalvus family are typical of the mixture of art and curiosities in 16th century princely collections.
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The son of Petrus Gonzalvus was examined in 1596 by the same physician who h...

Pilgrimage of epileptic women to the church of Molenbeek, then outside Brussels, on St. John's day 1564. "They danced and jumped and were healed" says the text.
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Pilgrimage of epileptic women to the church of Molenbeek, then outside...

The visit of the physician (The love-sick). Oakwood (1657) 34 x 27 cm Inv. 590
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The visit of the physician (The love-sick). Oakwood (1657)...

The cure for folly. A satire on medieval charlatans and quack doctors who claimed to cure madness by extracting a stone from the person's forehead. Wood, 48 x 35 cm Inv. 256
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The cure for folly. A satire on medieval charlatans and quack doctors who claime...

The cure for folly. A satire on medieval charlatans and quack doctors who claimed to cure madness by extracting a stone from the person's forehead. Detail of 40-05-04/1 Inv. 256
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The cure for folly. A satire on medieval charlatans and quack doctors who claime...

The child Bonaventura healed by Saint Francis, 1628. Painted for the church of the Franciscan college of Saint Bonaventura in Sevilla. See 40-06-04/68 by Zurbaran. Canvas, 234 x 218 cm RF 1963-1
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The child Bonaventura healed by Saint Francis, 1628. Painted for the church...

Jesus heals the paralytic. Canvas, 83 x 116 cm Inv.1647
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Jesus heals the paralytic. Canvas, 83 x 116 cm...

Ophelia 1851-2 Shakespeare's character Ophelia, driven insane by the murder of her father by her lover Hamlet, is portrayed singing in her madness as she drowns. Canvas; 762 x 1118 mm N01506
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Ophelia 1851-2 Shakespeare's character Ophelia, driven insane by the murder o...

Alexander Morison, psychiatrist. Oil on canvas (1852) 51.1 x 61.3 cm
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Alexander Morison, psychiatrist. Oil on canvas (1852)...

Hypnotic Session. Oil on canvas (1887) 153 x 195 cm
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Hypnotic Session. Oil on canvas (1887)...

Ward for irritable patients at San Bonifacio, Florence, Italy Oil on canvas (1865) 65 x 59 cm
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Ward for irritable patients at San Bonifacio, Florence, Italy...

Nietzsche and madness Etching (1907-1908) 12.6 x 12.7 cm
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Nietzsche and madness Etching (1907-1908)...