Ep. 2 Art & Medicine (Pre-1850)

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Image 1a (left)

Ostracon with Medical Recipes, Coptic, 580-640, The Metropolitan Museum of Art

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Cuneiform tablet: list of magical stones, Achaemenid or Seleucid, c.500-1000 BCE, The Metropolitan Museum of Art

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Marble votive relief fragment of goddesses, mother, nurse, and infant, Greek, late 5th century BCE, The Metropolitan Museum of Art

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"Preparing Medicine from Honey", from a Dispersed Manuscript of an Arabic Translation of De Material Medica of Dioscorides, Abdullah ibn al-Fadl, 1224 CE, The Metropolitan Museum of Art

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"Oxen amongst Foliage", Folio from a Manafi' al-Hayawan (On the Usefulness of Animals) of Ibn Bakhtishy, Ibn Bakhtishu, 1297-99, The Metropolitan Museum of Art

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Personal Image of Four Humors

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Fasciculo di medicina, Possibly Johannes de Ketham, 1493, The Metropolitan Museum of Art

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Coconut cup in form of an owl, c.1600, Kunstkammer Georg Laure (TEFAF Maastricht 2020)

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Goa Stone and Gold Case, Unknown, c.1680-1720, The Metropolitan Museum of Art

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Covered jar, Mexican, c.1675-1700, The Metropolitan Museum of Art

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Las Meninas, Diego Velázquez, c.1656, Museo del Prado

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Detail from Las Meninas

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Hildegard von Bingen empfängt eine göttliche Inspiration und gibt sie an ihren Schreiber weiter, Miniatur aus dem Rupertsberger Codex des Liber Scivias, date unknown

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De humane corporis fabric (Of the Structure of the Human Body), Andreas Vesalius, 1555, The Metropolitan Museum of Art

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Vitruvian Man, Leonardo da Vinci, c.1489, Gallerie dell’Accademia (Venice)

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Anatomy drawing, Leonardo da Vinci, c.1489, Private Collection

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Helpful Resources

Wikipedia

Medieval medicine of Western Europe [Link]

Early Middle Ages [Link]

Egyptian Medicine [Link]

Ancient Greek Medicine [Link]

Miasma Theory [Link]

Hildegard of Bingen [Link]

Books & Essays

"Medicine in the Middle Ages" by Sigrid Goldiner, Metropolitan Museum of Art Publications (January 2012) [Link]

Medieval Art 2nd Ed. by Marilyn Stokstad [Link]

"Medicine in the Middle Ages" by Alice Bovey (30 Apr, 2015) [Link]

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