The Martyrdom of St Erasmus
The Martyrdom of St Erasmus about 1430–1440, by Master of Sir John Fastolf (French, active before about 1420 – about 1450). Tempera colors, gold leaf, and ink, Leaf: 12.1 × 9.2 cm (4 3/4 × 3 5/8 in.) The J. Paul Getty Museum, Los Angeles, Ms. 5 (84.ML.723), fol. 38v – This scene of the martyrdom […]
Roman marble version of a dying Gaul
Roman marble version of a dying Gaul the original was part of a major sculptural display on the Athenian Acropolis of Attalid Greeks fighting Gauls in Asia Minor, Gods fighting Giants, Greeks fighting Amazons, and Greeks fighting Persians in the Persian Wars, c.200 B.C. Naples Dying GaulPhoto: Mary Harrsch, CC-BY-NC-SA-2.0 – In c. 200 BCE Attalos […]
Marble votive relief
Marble votive relief showing votive body-parts c.480 B.C., fourth-century B.C. from Asklepieion at Athens Notwendige Votive Relief – Acr. 7232 © Acropolis MuseumPhoto: Constantinos Vasiliadis – A number of Greek sanctuaries, and in particular sanctuaries of healing god Asklepios, have yielded dedications of votive body-parts. These include arms and hands, legs and feet, eyes, ears, […]
Blasengeschwülste, Fig. 44-46: Ansichten eines Papilloms, Fig. 47-48: Ansichten eines Tumors (Kneise 1908: Tafel IX)
Blasengeschwülste, Fig. 44-46: Ansichten eines Papilloms, Fig. 47-48: Ansichten eines Tumors (Kneise 1908: Tafel IX) Kneise, Otto (1908): Handatlas der Cystskopie. Gebauer-Schwetschke: Halle a. Saale. — Attempts to access the interior of the body via orifices had already been made since antiquity, with particular attention being paid to the oral, genital, urinary and excretory organs. […]
Carcinoma colloides peritonei
Carcinoma colloides peritonei From: Emil Ponfick: Topographischer Atlas der Medizinisch-Chirurgischen Diagnostik / Topographic atlas of medico-surgical diagnosis, G. Fischer. Jena 1900-1905 Artist: Dr. Emil Löschmann, Breslau — The attempts of the German pathologist Emil Ponfick, who in 1901 attempted to reduce the gap between drawing and original object, show how objectives and implementation should be brought together […]
A fresco, Catacomba di Via Dino Compagni
A fresco, Catacomba di Via Dino Compagni © foto Pontificia Commissione di Archeologia Sacra” or “© foto Archivio PCAS” [Kontakt zur PCAS in Arbeit] – This fresco from the hypogeum of Via Dino Compagni in the Via Latina Catacomb in Rome dates to the fourth century CE. It shows a large group of men looking […]
Athenian red-figure cup attributed to Douris
Athenian red-figure cup attributed to Douris death of Pentheus (detail), c.480 B.C. Cervetri, Museo Nazionale CeritePhoto: 2023@photo Scala, Florence, Kimbell Art Museum, Fort Worth, Texas /Art Resource, NY/Scala, Florence – The death of Pentheus is most familiar in the description given by Euripides in Bacchae. There a messenger speech describes how Pentheus’ mother, Agave, and […]
A female ‘open torso’ figurine
A female ‘open torso’ figurine Nottingham Castle Museum – This female figurine was discovered at the sanctuary of the Graeco-Roman goddess Artemis/Diana Nemorensis at Lake Nemi in Italy in 1885. It was excavated and recovered from a sacred pit where it had been ritually disposed of sometime in antiquity after it had ceased to be […]
A polyvisceral plaque
A polyvisceral plaque Museo Nazionale Etrusco Di Villa Giulia – This Etruscan polyvisceral plaque from Tessennano in Latium in Italy is thought to date from around 400 BCE. Anatomical votives like these were deposited in sanctuaries and temples as offerings to the gods, generally interpreted as a gesture of gratitude for some manner of divine […]
Athenian red-figure krater signed by Euphronios
Athenian red-figure krater signed by Euphronios death of Sarpedon c.500 B.C. Cervetri, Museo Nazionale CeritePhoto: Jaime Ardiles-Arce, CC0 1.0 Universal (CC0 1.0) – This pot has become particularly famous because it was illegally excavated and then acquired by the Metropolitan Museum in New York. The Met. subsequently agreed that its acquisition had been inappropriate and the […]