Visual arts and medicine in early modern Europe and beyond

Robert Brennan is Lecturer in in Italian Art, c. 1300-1500 at the Courtauld Institute of Art at the University of LondonFabian Jonietz is a scholar at the Central Institute for Art History, MunichRomana Sammern is a permanent postdoctoral scholar at the interuniversity organisation ‘Arts & Knowledges’ of the University of Salzburg/Mozarteum University

• Introduction: Ut pictura medicina? – Robert Brennan, Fabian Jonietz, Romana SammernSource 1 Bernardino Ramazzini, De morbis artificum diatriba, 1700 – Jana Graul1 Saintly systems of healing: images, devotion and cures – Catherine Lawless2 Wax ex votos in late medieval England: bodies, health, and the problem of portraiture – Carly B. BoxerSource 2 Stefan Falimirz’ O ziolach (1534): the first medical text published in Polish – Julia Czapla3 The anatomy of whiteness in late medieval Italy – Robert Brennan4 ‘I advocate the frequent viewing of […] green’: Ficino, green walls and early modern ‘chromotherapy’ – Katharine StahlbuhkSource 3 The Canon of Polykleitos in Galen, Ali ibn Ridwan, and their Florentine readers – Robert Brennan5 The uroscopic colour palette: Dominicus de Ragusa, Gentile da Fabriano, and painterly knowledge of urine – Fabian Jonietz6 Crafting surgical expertise in the medical manuals of Jacopo Berengario da Carpi (1518-1523) – Ariella MindenSource 4 Pier Antonio Fucini, Trattato della pittura, ca. 1605/21 – Fabian Jonietz7 Slave or condottiere? Artists, labour and occupational health in early modern Italy – Frances M. Gage8 Giulio Mancini and Sebastiano Vannini: medicine and connoisseurship in early Baroque Rome – Fabrizio FedericiSource 5 The drawings of Georgius Josephus Camel and their role for the chemical and medicalarts between Central Europe and South Asia, ca. 1685–1706 – Paolo Sanvito9 1638 – Bones of contention – Katharina SabernigSource 6 Visual culture of Tibetan materia medica – Katharina SabernigAfterword – Robert Brennan, Fabian Jonietz, Romana SammernBibliographyIndex of names and subjects