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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

188 photos
Saint Christopher between Saints Rochus and Saint      
Sebastian, around 1535                                 
Canvas, 275 x 232 cm
#40081124

Saint Christopher between Saints Rochus and Saint Sebastian, around 1535...

The Quack Dentist, 1746-1752                           
Oil on canvas, 50 x 52 cm
#40081324

The Quack Dentist, 1746-1752 Oil on canvas, 50 x 52 c...

Self-Portrait,painted shortly before the outbreak      
of the plague in Venice.Titian died of the plague in   
1576.                                                  
Canvas,86 x 65 cm      Cat.407
#40081362

Self-Portrait,painted shortly before the outbreak of the plague in Venice....

Two legends of Saint Nicholas of Myra: He resurrects a boy      
struck by a devil and he saves Mira,his bishopric,     
from a famine.Right-hand side of a four-panel          
composition. Tempera on wood, 96 x 35 cm               
Inv.8348
#400818 5

Two legends of Saint Nicholas of Myra: He resurrects a boy struck by a de...

A lesson on hysteria by Jean Martin Charcot (1825-93),
pioneer of neurology, at the hospital "la Salpetriere".
The patient is Blanche Wittmann, held by Babinski, who
hypnotized the patients. Sigmund Freud took lessons
with Charcot in 1885-86.       Oil on canvas
#40110537

A lesson on hysteria by Jean Martin Charcot (1825-93), pioneer of neurology, at...

La mort de Gericault. The death of Theodore Gericault, 
January 26, 1824. At his deathbed his friends colonel  
Bro de Comeres and the painter Joseph Dedreux-Dorcy.   
Canvas, 36 x 46 cm.                                    
M.I. 209
#40110729

La mort de Gericault. The death of Theodore Gericault, January 26, 1824. At his...

La peste d'Ashdod ou le miracle de l'Arche -           
The plague in Ashdod or the miracle of the Ark, 1630.  
(Samuel I, 5:1-6)                                      
Canvas, 148-198 cm
#40110834

La peste d'Ashdod ou le miracle de l'Arche - The plague in Ashdod or...

La folle monomane du jeu - Woman with gambling mania.  
Canvas, 77 x 64 cm                                     
R.F. 1938-51
#40110951

La folle monomane du jeu - Woman with gambling mania. Canvas, 77 x 64 cm...

Job rallie par sa femme - Job and his wife.            
Early 1630      Canvas, 147 x 97 cm
#40111331

Job rallie par sa femme - Job and his wife. Early 1630 Canvas,...

Alexandre et le medecin Philippe - Alexander the Great 
and the physician Philip, 1647                         
Oil on canvas,tondo, 99,5 cm across.                   
NG 6576
#40111631

Alexandre et le medecin Philippe - Alexander the Great and the physician Philip...

Saint Louis soignant les malades - Saint Louis         
tends to the sick.Painted for the Abbey of             
Marmoutiers,near Tours,France.                         
Canvas, 192 x 126 cm
#40111646

Saint Louis soignant les malades - Saint Louis tends to the sick.Paint...

Cholera scene.
#40111668

Cholera scene.