This book establishes novel points of connection between European art and medicine in early modernity, opening up new perspectives on the material, social, and theoretical basis of each discipline.
This book opens up new perspectives on the relationship between art, medicine, and science in late-medieval and early modern Europe. Looking beyond the traditional nexus of art, anatomy, and optics, the volume sheds light on a broader array of connections between artists and physicians: 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. Reconfiguring the histories of art, medicine, and science, the book also traverses conventional boundaries between physical and mental health, religious and medical modes of healing, menial and exalted forms of knowledge and labour, as well as vernacular and scientific understandings of human difference, including gender, race, and neurodiversity.
Introduction: Ut pictura medicina? Robert Brennan, Fabian Jonietz,
Romana Sammern
Source 1 Bernardino Ramazzini, De morbis artificum diatriba, 1700 Jana
Graul
1 Saintly systems of healing: images, devotion and cures Catherine Lawless
2 Wax ex votos in late medieval England: bodies, health, and the problem of
portraiture Carly B. Boxer
Source 2 Stefan Falimirz O ziolach (1534): the first medical text published
in Polish Julia Czapla
3 The anatomy of whiteness in late medieval Italy Robert Brennan
4 I advocate the frequent viewing of [ ] green: Ficino, green walls and
early modern chromotherapy Katharine Stahlbuhk
Source 3 The Canon of Polykleitos in Galen, Ali ibn Ridwan, and their
Florentine readers Robert Brennan
5 The uroscopic colour palette: Dominicus de Ragusa, Gentile da Fabriano, and
painterly knowledge of urine Fabian Jonietz
6 Crafting surgical expertise in the medical manuals of Jacopo Berengario da
Carpi (1518-1523) Ariella Minden
Source 4 Pier Antonio Fucini, Trattato della pittura, ca. 1605/21 Fabian
Jonietz
7 Slave or condottiere? Artists, labour and occupational health in early
modern Italy Frances M. Gage
8 Giulio Mancini and Sebastiano Vannini: medicine and connoisseurship in
early Baroque Rome Fabrizio Federici
Source 5 The drawings of Georgius Josephus Camel and their role for the
chemical and medicalarts between Central Europe and South Asia, ca. 16851706
Paolo Sanvito
9 1638 Bones of contention Katharina Sabernig
Source 6 Visual culture of Tibetan materia medica Katharina Sabernig
Afterword Robert Brennan, Fabian Jonietz, Romana Sammern
Bibliography
Index of names and subjects -- .
Robert Brennan is Lecturer in in Italian Art, c. 1300-1500 at the Courtauld Institute of Art at the University of London
Fabian Jonietz is a scholar at the Central Institute for Art History, Munich
Romana Sammern is a permanent postdoctoral scholar at the interuniversity organisation Arts & Knowledges of the University of Salzburg/Mozarteum University -- .
