Medicine in the Middle Ages

 a hospital, building where the sick or injured are healed, treated, cared for. Image James le Palmer’s Omne Bonum; England (London), c. 1360-c  Chicken Soup – Good for the Soul

Regimen sanitatis (1308) de Arnau de Vilanova  medieval bathing

Physician letting blood from a patient. British Library, London. Aldobrandino of Siena  Li Livres dou Santé. France, late 13th Century

Transplant-of-skull-Trattato-di-chirurgia-di-Rogerio-Frugardi-inizi-del-XIV-secolo-British-Library-London

Treatment of hemorrhoids in the Middle Ages painting refers to the School of Salerno

Dance

Hieronymus_Janssens_-_Charles_II_Dancing_at_a_Ball_at_Court

Nicolas Poussin    The_dance_to_the_music_of_time_c._1640

Hans Bock the Elder  Dance around the Statue of Venus

Eugenio_Lucas_Villaamil_Dance_at_the_Palace

Francken,_Hieronymus_the_Younger_-_Ball_-_1607

Indians by clymer-john-ford

 John Clymer-The Peace Pipe

 Crows Hunting Buffalo - John Clymer

John-Clymer-Spotted-Buffalo

Nez Perce Crossing Yellowstone - John Clymer

John-Clymer-Return-from-the-Hunt

Mexican codex

Codex Mendoza   unknown,  An Aztec mother teaches her 13-year-old daughter to make tortillas

Codex_Magliabechiano_11R  showing the first four day-symbols of the tonalpohualli Flint, Rain, Flower, Crocodile. Note how closely the Rain day-symbol resembles that of Tlaloc.

Magliabchanopage_73r  Cannibalism taking place

Florentine Codex,Nahuatl.  Laurentian Library.

Codex Rios 16th century.  Xochiquetzal  Author unknown,

Flowers

  Paolo Cattamara detto Pavoluccio Napoletano  Fiori su un tavolo, una farfalla e una lumaca

Francesca Volò detta Francesca Vicenzina  Natura morta con frutti e fiori all’aperto

Angelo Zani  Vaso con fiori all’aperto

Francesco Guardi  Fiori all’aperto e un cesto con un gallo

 Vincenzo Volò detto Vincenzino dei Fiori  Vaso biansato di ceramica con fiori

Houses-Russia

Tikhomirov Andrey. From the series Staraya Moskva 1

VLADIMIR VOLEGOV  Moscow-landscape-_1869

Oksana PAVLOVA - Heart of Russia. 2002

Paul Osipovich Kovalevsky - White Night

Aleksandra Yegorovna Makovskaya - The Village 1895

human sacrifice of Iphigenia

The_Sacrifice_of_Iphigenia_by_Jan_Havickszoon_Steen

 Felice_Torelli_-_The_Sacrifice_of_Iphigenia_-_WGA23010

Giovanni Battista  Tiepolo,_Opferung_der_Iphigenie@Weimar_Schlossmuseum

Bramer,_Leonaert_-_The_Sacrifice_of_Iphigenia_-_c._1623

françois-lemoyne-le-sarifice-diphigénie

Bullfighting

Bullfight, 1866 by Edouard Manet

Bullfight,_Suerte_de_Varas_by_Francisco_de_Goya,_1824,_Getty_Center

Bullfight, 1934 by Pablo Picasso

Édouard_manet,_combattimento_di_tori,_1865-66,_

A detail of Goya painting of a bullfight from the early 1800s

Laureys A. Castro - Dulwich Picture Gallery

Laureys_a_Castro_-_A_Galley_off_Malta

Laureys_a_Castro_-_Dutch_Levanters_in_a_Rough_Sea

Laureys_a_Castro_-_Ships_in_Rough_Water_off_a_Mediterranean_Port

Laureys_a_Castro_-_A_Calm

Laureys_a_Castro_-_A_Dutch_East-Indiaman_off_Hoorn

Poor's Life by Eastman Johnson

Eastman Johnson  Interior of a Farm House in Maine

 Eastman Johnson  New England Kitchen

Eastman Johnson  The Reprimand

 Eastman Johnson   Life in the South

Eastman Johnson   The Blacksmith Shop