This article considers a corpus of images created between 1650 and 1750 within Italian
Capuchin missions to Kongo and Angola. It demonstrates how these visual creations …

Nel 1616, Federico Cesi, marchese di Monticelli e duca di Acquasparta, giovane rampollo di
famiglia cardinalizia e appassionato indagatore del naturale, presentava in un discorso1 …

Images of Miraculous Healing in the Early Modern Netherlands explores the ways in which
paintings and prints of biblical miracles shaped viewers' approaches to physical and …

Peter Paul Rubens's Rockox Triptych is generally thought to represent the incredulity of
Saint Thomas, even though the side wound that presented Christ's famously distrustful …

Humanism, compassion, self-awareness and effective communication form the foundation
for understanding and addressing medical non-adherence. Humanism in healthcare frames …

In 1639 Rembrandt wrote to Constantijn Huygens, Secretary to the Dutch Stadholder
Frederik Hendrik, that he was sending a monumental painting, likely The Blinding of …

Painted in Rome around 1615, Jusepe de Ribera's series of half figures personifying the five
senses invites a diplomatic audience associated with the Lincean Academy to a …

This article is the second part of a study of the collection of Cardinal Paluzzo Altieri based on
the evidence of his 1698 death inventory. Part i considered his paintings collection, housed …

Taking Jane Sharp's The Midwives Book as a case study, this chapter demonstrates how
images can be used as sources for the history of medicine. Looking at the ways that book …

The common air, that element in which we live, that invisible fluid which surrounds the whole
earth […] never engaged so much the attention of the learned as it has of late years. This …