Art Flashes

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This section features short pieces about art and artists, illness and disease, and various medical themes in the visual arts.

Andrea del Sarto - plague in Florence , 2013; 5:2

Art and Medicine in Renaissance Siena, 2013; 5:1
Cennino d'Andrea Cennini (ca. 1370–1437), 2012
Divine Birth, 2012; 4:3

Mythological

• The birth of Aphrodite (Venus)
• The birth of Athena (Minerva)
• The birth of Pegasus
• The birth of Santa Claus

Biblical

• The birth of Eve
• The birth of John the Baptist
• The birth of Moses

Fountain of Youth, 2012

Fra Bartolommeo, 2012; 3:4

Frida Kahlo, 2012; 4:1

Giulio Clovio - Miniaturist and manuscript illuminator, 2013

Jacopo Pontormo - Distorting anatomy, 2012; 4:2

Jacques-Louis David-- The Death of Marat, 2012; 4:1

Lavinia Fontana - Ambras syndrome, 2013; 5:1

Leonardo da Vinci: anatomist, 2012

Lorenzo Lotto - A doctor and his son, 2012

Piero di Cosimo , 2012; 4:1

Quentin Massys- The Ugly Duchess, 2012; 4:1

Renaissance birth trays, 2012; 4:3

Saints Cosmas and Damian: patron saints of doctors , 2012
Saint Roch, 2012
Thomas Gainsborough - Dr. Schomburg, 2012
Van Orley - physician in Brussels, 2013 ; 5:2