CDR-1107: Medical Images in Art

Examples of medical conditions, treatments, supplies and knowledge in the field were selected for this set. Early depictions of spectacles (from 1575), skin conditions, facial disfigurement (inbreeding), early anatomical drawings and laboratories, dental extractions and surgeries are captured by the artists as permanent record of the times.

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96 images from Saskia, Ltd. 10 images from Hartill Art Associates 199 images from Bridgeman Art Library 1 images from Kenneth Garrett 7 images from The Metropolitan Museum of Art 3 images from Anthony Scibilia

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Lhf-0304
Title: Acts of Mercy
Creator(s): Pieter Aertsen
Date: 1575
Description: woman with glasses dressing child
Vendor: Saskia, Ltd.
 
Lhf-0302
Title: Acts of Mercy
Creator(s): Pieter Aertsen
Date: 1575
Description: feeding the hungry, visiting the sick
Vendor: Saskia, Ltd.
 
XIR-211757
Title: Anatomy of Eye, from a book on eye diseases
Creator(s): Al-Mutadibih
Date: ca. 1200
Description: Total
Vendor: Bridgeman Art Library
 
XIR-226129
Title: Series of flagons for urine analysis, from 'Tractatus de Pestilencia'
Creator(s): M. Albik
Description: Total
Vendor: Bridgeman Art Library
 
XIR-184037
Title: Influence of stars on illnesses of human body, from 'Tractatus de Pestilencia'
Creator(s): M. Albik
Description: Total
Vendor: Bridgeman Art Library
 
Met-1196
Title: In the Laboratory
Creator(s): Henry Alexander
Date: ca. 1885-87
Description: Total
Vendor: The Metropolitan Museum of Art
 
Lif-1900
Title: Pietro Maria, Doctor of Cremona
Creator(s): Lucia Anguissola
Description: Total
Vendor: Saskia, Ltd.
 
XAM-071626
Title: Girl with a dwarf
Creator(s): Sofonisba Anguissola
Date: ca. 1595
Description: Total
Vendor: Bridgeman Art Library
 
XIR-112044
Title: The Improvised Ambulance, The Painter Monet Wounded at Chailly-en-Biere
Creator(s): Frédéric Bazille
Date: 1865
Description: Total
Vendor: Bridgeman Art Library
 
XIR-070357
Title: Napoleon visiting the Infirmary of Invalides on 11th February 1808
Creator(s): Alexandre Veron Bellecourt
Date: 1809
Description: Total
Vendor: Bridgeman Art Library
 
Mif-0455
Title: The Midwife Luchesis
Creator(s): Pietro Bellotti
Description: face and headdress
Vendor: Saskia, Ltd.
 
Mif-0454
Title: The Midwife Luchesis
Creator(s): Pietro Bellotti
Description: Total
Vendor: Saskia, Ltd.
 
BAL-003422
Title: Cure of Folly
Creator(s): Hieronymus Bosch
Description: Total
Vendor: Bridgeman Art Library
 
XIR-224905
Title: Enema
Creator(s): Abraham Bosse
Description: Total
Vendor: Bridgeman Art Library
 
Mhf-1774
Title: The Doctor's Visit
Creator(s): Quiringh van Brekelenkam
Description: Total
Vendor: Saskia, Ltd.
 
Mhf-1775
Title: The Doctor's Visit
Creator(s): Quiringh van Brekelenkam
Description: doctor and sick woman
Vendor: Saskia, Ltd.
 
XIR-155424
Title: Clinical Lesson with Doctor Charcot at the Salpetriere
Creator(s): Brouillet, Andre
Date: 1887
Description: Total
Vendor: Bridgeman Art Library
 
Mff-0709a
Title: Operation on the Back
Creator(s): Adriaen Brouwer
Description: detail: operation on the back
Vendor: Saskia, Ltd.
 
Mff-0710
Title: Operation on the Foot
Creator(s): Adriaen Brouwer
Description: Total
Vendor: Saskia, Ltd.
 
Mff-0711
Title: Operation on the Foot
Creator(s): Adriaen Brouwer
Description: central detail of operation
Vendor: Saskia, Ltd.
 
XKH-141020
Title: Sisters of Mercy
Creator(s): Henriette Browne
Date: 1859
Description: Total
Vendor: Bridgeman Art Library
 
Lff-0920
Title: Parable of the Blind
Creator(s): Pieter Bruegel I the Elder
Date: 1568
Description: Total
Vendor: Saskia, Ltd.
 
Lfm-0003
Title: The Alchemist
Creator(s): Pieter Bruegel I the Elder
Date: 1558/1559
Description: scholar and fool
Vendor: Saskia, Ltd.
 
Lfm-0002
Title: The Alchemist
Creator(s): Pieter Bruegel I the Elder
Date: 1558/1559
Description: alchemist and wife
Vendor: Saskia, Ltd.
 
XIR-224714
Title: Alchemist at work, engraved by Hieronymus Cock (c.1510-70)
Creator(s): Pieter Bruegel I the Elder
Description: Total
Vendor: Bridgeman Art Library
 
Lfm-0001
Title: The Alchemist
Creator(s): Pieter Bruegel I the Elder
Date: 1558/1559
Description: Total
Vendor: Saskia, Ltd.
 
Lff-0921
Title: Parable of the Blind
Creator(s): Pieter Bruegel I the Elder
Date: 1568
Description: center figure with landscape
Vendor: Saskia, Ltd.
 
XIR-028582
Title: Cutting out the Stone of Madness or an Operation on the Head
Creator(s): Pieter Bruegel I the Elder
Description: Total
Vendor: Bridgeman Art Library
 
Lff-0923
Title: Parable of the Blind
Creator(s): Pieter Bruegel I the Elder
Date: 1568
Description: three characters at left
Vendor: Saskia, Ltd.
 
Lib-0160a
Title: Foundling Hospital (Ospedale degli Innocenti)
Creator(s): Filippo Brunelleschi
Date: 1419-1426
Description: Detail view of loggia with Equestrian Mon. of Ferdinand I de'Medici, 1608 (by G. Bologna)
Vendor: Saskia, Ltd.
 
Lib-0160
Title: Foundling Hospital (Ospedale degli Innocenti)
Creator(s): Filippo Brunelleschi
Date: 1419-1426
Description: Overall view of loggia and façade and Equestrian Grand Duke Ferdinand I de'Medici (r.1587-1609)
Vendor: Saskia, Ltd.
 
Lib-0161b
Title: Foundling Hospital (Ospedale degli Innocenti)
Creator(s): Filippo Brunelleschi
Date: 1419-1426
Description: det: central arch, medallions: Andrea della Robbia, 1487
Vendor: Saskia, Ltd.
 
Lib-0161a
Title: Foundling Hospital (Ospedale degli Innocenti)
Creator(s): Filippo Brunelleschi
Date: 1419-1426
Description: det: terracotta medallions by Andrea della Robbia, 1487
Vendor: Saskia, Ltd.
 
Lib-0161
Title: Foundling Hospital (Ospedale degli Innocenti)
Creator(s): Filippo Brunelleschi
Date: 1419-1426
Description: Closer view of arcade w. rondula
Vendor: Saskia, Ltd.
 
ACa-2450
Title: Hospital for Sick Children, Atrium north
Creator(s): Jane Buckles
Description: Barnyard Flyers
Vendor: Hartill Art Associates
 
XIR-233285
Title: Beggar on his crutches, from behind
Creator(s): Jacques Callot
Description: Total
Vendor: Bridgeman Art Library
 
Mif-0829
Title: Portrait of Two Physicians as Saints Cosmas and Damian
Creator(s): Giovanni Battista Caracciolo
Date: ca. 1618
Description: Total
Vendor: Saskia, Ltd.
 
XIR-055903
Title: Sick Bacchus
Creator(s): Michelangelo Merisi da Caravaggio
Date: 1591
Description: Total
Vendor: Bridgeman Art Library
 
XIR-082856
Title: Convalescent
Creator(s): Charles Emile Auguste Carolus-Duran
Date: ca. 1860
Description: Total
Vendor: Bridgeman Art Library
 
XIR-175014
Title: The Birth Scene
Creator(s): Jean-Baptiste Carpeaux
Description: Total
Vendor: Bridgeman Art Library