Visual arts and medicine in early modern Europe and beyond

This book looks beyond the traditional nexus of painting, anatomy, and optics to explore a wider, more complex network of material, institutional, and theoretical connections between visual art and medicine in early modern Europe. Focusing on the thirteenth through seventeenth centuries, the book sh...

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Główni autorzy: Brennan, Robert, Jonietz, Fabian, Sammern, Romana, Graul, Jana, Lawless, Catherine, Boxer, Carly B., Czapla, Julia, Stahlbuhk, Katharine, Minden, Ariella, Gage, Frances, Federici, Fabrizio, Sanvito, Paolo, Sabernig, Katherina
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author Brennan, Robert
Jonietz, Fabian
Sammern, Romana
Graul, Jana
Lawless, Catherine
Boxer, Carly B.
Czapla, Julia
Stahlbuhk, Katharine
Minden, Ariella
Gage, Frances
Federici, Fabrizio
Sanvito, Paolo
Sabernig, Katherina
author_browse Boxer, Carly B.
Brennan, Robert
Czapla, Julia
Federici, Fabrizio
Gage, Frances
Graul, Jana
Jonietz, Fabian
Lawless, Catherine
Minden, Ariella
Sabernig, Katherina
Sammern, Romana
Sanvito, Paolo
Stahlbuhk, Katharine
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Jonietz, Fabian
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Graul, Jana
Lawless, Catherine
Boxer, Carly B.
Czapla, Julia
Stahlbuhk, Katharine
Minden, Ariella
Gage, Frances
Federici, Fabrizio
Sanvito, Paolo
Sabernig, Katherina
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description This book looks beyond the traditional nexus of painting, anatomy, and optics to explore a wider, more complex network of material, institutional, and theoretical connections between visual art and medicine in early modern Europe. Focusing on the thirteenth through seventeenth centuries, the book sheds light on collaborations between painters and doctors on colour charts, handwork skills common to sculptors and surgeons, the transmission of art theory through medical texts long before the emergence of art writing itself as an independent genre, and the kinship of medical diagnosis with early modes of connoisseurship. On one level, the book proposes that visual art and medicine enjoyed a special degree of intertwinement, beyond the typical range of connections that bound the arts together in premodernity. On another level, it also demonstrates the relevance of this intertwinement to a range of pressing methodological concerns in current humanities scholarship, such as recent approaches to the history of the body, embodied knowledge, and transregional connectivity. Alongside nine chapters that explore these and other topics, the book also provides an array of little-known primary sources, translated into English from languages such as Latin, Italian, Polish, and Tibetan, along with introductions and commentary. The aim of the book is not to write a visual history of the medical profession, nor to chronicle the role that medical illustration has played in art history, but rather to rethink the broader social and epistemological standing of both disciplines.
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spelling doab-20.500.12854ir-1740692026-03-19T14:44:10Z Visual arts and medicine in early modern Europe and beyond Brennan, Robert Jonietz, Fabian Sammern, Romana Graul, Jana Lawless, Catherine Boxer, Carly B. Czapla, Julia Stahlbuhk, Katharine Minden, Ariella Gage, Frances Federici, Fabrizio Sanvito, Paolo Sabernig, Katherina Brennan, Robert Jonietz, Fabian Sammern, Romana Anatomy Art history Artisanal knowledge Body history Collaboration Cross-cultural exchange Embodied knowledge History of science Interdisciplinarity Transfer of knowledge Cennino Cennini Medicine Pharmacology History of labour Social history Bonaventura Berlinghieri Christianism Cure Ex voto Fragments Pilgrimage Prayer St Birgitta Julius von Schlosser Mimesis Garden of Health Herbal History of Poland Cimabue Colour Cosmetics Figline Master Giotto History of Florence Race Taddeo Alderotti Eyesight Fresco painting Libraries Pigments Reception of antiquity Translations Dissimulation Galen Quintus St Luke Translation Urine wheel Uroscopy Bologna Craftwork Mondino de’ Luzzi Print history Art theory Liberal arts Age Giulio Mancini Pontormo Aristotelianism Connoisseurship Botany Jesuits Manila Missionary China Tibet Mural painting Scientific illustrations thema EDItEUR::A The Arts::AG The Arts: treatments and subjects::AGA History of art thema EDItEUR::M Medicine and Nursing::MB Medicine: general issues::MBX History of medicine thema EDItEUR::P Mathematics and Science::PD Science: general issues::PDX History of science thema EDItEUR::3 Time period qualifiers::3M c 1500 onwards to present day::3MG 17th century, c 1600 to c 1699 thema EDItEUR::3 Time period qualifiers::3M c 1500 onwards to present day::3ML 18th century, c 1700 to c 1799 thema EDItEUR::N History and Archaeology::NH History::NHD European history thema EDItEUR::A The Arts::AG The Arts: treatments and subjects::AGH Human figures depicted in art This book looks beyond the traditional nexus of painting, anatomy, and optics to explore a wider, more complex network of material, institutional, and theoretical connections between visual art and medicine in early modern Europe. Focusing on the thirteenth through seventeenth centuries, the book sheds light on collaborations between painters and doctors on colour charts, handwork skills common to sculptors and surgeons, the transmission of art theory through medical texts long before the emergence of art writing itself as an independent genre, and the kinship of medical diagnosis with early modes of connoisseurship. On one level, the book proposes that visual art and medicine enjoyed a special degree of intertwinement, beyond the typical range of connections that bound the arts together in premodernity. On another level, it also demonstrates the relevance of this intertwinement to a range of pressing methodological concerns in current humanities scholarship, such as recent approaches to the history of the body, embodied knowledge, and transregional connectivity. Alongside nine chapters that explore these and other topics, the book also provides an array of little-known primary sources, translated into English from languages such as Latin, Italian, Polish, and Tibetan, along with introductions and commentary. The aim of the book is not to write a visual history of the medical profession, nor to chronicle the role that medical illustration has played in art history, but rather to rethink the broader social and epistemological standing of both disciplines. 2026-03-19T14:44:08Z 2026-03-19T14:44:08Z 2026-03-06T14:23:27Z 2026 book https://library.oapen.org/handle/20.500.12657/111267 9781526182890 9781526182876 https://directory.doabooks.org/handle/20.500.12854/174069 eng open access image/jpeg Attribution 4.0 International https://library.oapen.org/bitstream/20.500.12657/111267/1/9781526182890.pdf Manchester University Press 10.7765/9781526182890 10.7765/9781526182890 bcb4ab08-c525-4e6c-88e5-a0cf0a175533 9781526182890 9781526182876 316 Manchester open access
spellingShingle Anatomy
Art history
Artisanal knowledge
Body history
Collaboration
Cross-cultural exchange
Embodied knowledge
History of science
Interdisciplinarity
Transfer of knowledge
Cennino Cennini
Medicine
Pharmacology
History of labour
Social history
Bonaventura Berlinghieri
Christianism
Cure
Ex voto
Fragments
Pilgrimage
Prayer
St Birgitta
Julius von Schlosser
Mimesis
Garden of Health
Herbal
History of Poland
Cimabue
Colour
Cosmetics
Figline Master
Giotto
History of Florence
Race
Taddeo Alderotti
Eyesight
Fresco painting
Libraries
Pigments
Reception of antiquity
Translations
Dissimulation
Galen
Quintus
St Luke
Translation
Urine wheel
Uroscopy
Bologna
Craftwork
Mondino de’ Luzzi
Print history
Art theory
Liberal arts
Age
Giulio Mancini
Pontormo
Aristotelianism
Connoisseurship
Botany
Jesuits
Manila
Missionary
China
Tibet
Mural painting
Scientific illustrations
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Jonietz, Fabian
Sammern, Romana
Graul, Jana
Lawless, Catherine
Boxer, Carly B.
Czapla, Julia
Stahlbuhk, Katharine
Minden, Ariella
Gage, Frances
Federici, Fabrizio
Sanvito, Paolo
Sabernig, Katherina
Visual arts and medicine in early modern Europe and beyond
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title_short Visual arts and medicine in early modern Europe and beyond
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topic Anatomy
Art history
Artisanal knowledge
Body history
Collaboration
Cross-cultural exchange
Embodied knowledge
History of science
Interdisciplinarity
Transfer of knowledge
Cennino Cennini
Medicine
Pharmacology
History of labour
Social history
Bonaventura Berlinghieri
Christianism
Cure
Ex voto
Fragments
Pilgrimage
Prayer
St Birgitta
Julius von Schlosser
Mimesis
Garden of Health
Herbal
History of Poland
Cimabue
Colour
Cosmetics
Figline Master
Giotto
History of Florence
Race
Taddeo Alderotti
Eyesight
Fresco painting
Libraries
Pigments
Reception of antiquity
Translations
Dissimulation
Galen
Quintus
St Luke
Translation
Urine wheel
Uroscopy
Bologna
Craftwork
Mondino de’ Luzzi
Print history
Art theory
Liberal arts
Age
Giulio Mancini
Pontormo
Aristotelianism
Connoisseurship
Botany
Jesuits
Manila
Missionary
China
Tibet
Mural painting
Scientific illustrations
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Art history
Artisanal knowledge
Body history
Collaboration
Cross-cultural exchange
Embodied knowledge
History of science
Interdisciplinarity
Transfer of knowledge
Cennino Cennini
Medicine
Pharmacology
History of labour
Social history
Bonaventura Berlinghieri
Christianism
Cure
Ex voto
Fragments
Pilgrimage
Prayer
St Birgitta
Julius von Schlosser
Mimesis
Garden of Health
Herbal
History of Poland
Cimabue
Colour
Cosmetics
Figline Master
Giotto
History of Florence
Race
Taddeo Alderotti
Eyesight
Fresco painting
Libraries
Pigments
Reception of antiquity
Translations
Dissimulation
Galen
Quintus
St Luke
Translation
Urine wheel
Uroscopy
Bologna
Craftwork
Mondino de’ Luzzi
Print history
Art theory
Liberal arts
Age
Giulio Mancini
Pontormo
Aristotelianism
Connoisseurship
Botany
Jesuits
Manila
Missionary
China
Tibet
Mural painting
Scientific illustrations
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