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The visitation of the Blessed Virgin Mary to Saint Elizabeth (above) and Caspar, one of the magi, on horseback (below). Tempera painting by a Spanish painter, 14th century.
Date: [between 1300 and 1399?]Reference: 45993iPart of: Sacred subjects: episodes in the New Testament, apostles, saints, and martyrdoms. Tempera and oil paintings, 13-- and ca. 1600.- Pictures
An evangelist (?) holding a book, head and shoulders to right; scrollwork forming the name of Jesus. Tempera painting by a Spanish painter, 14th century and oil painting by a Spanish painter, ca. 1600.
Date: [between 1300 and 1399?],Reference: 45994iPart of: Sacred subjects: episodes in the New Testament, apostles, saints, and martyrdoms. Tempera and oil paintings, 13-- and ca. 1600.- Archives and manuscripts
Johannes de Parma (c. 1250)
Date: Early 15th CenturyReference: MS.387- Pictures
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An ideal head, yet according to Lavater, destitute of character. Drawing, c. 1792.
Date: 1792?Reference: 30010i- Pictures
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Four physiognomic profiles: clockwise from top left: a timid man, a man of good taste, a prudent observer, and a sensualist. Drawing, c. 1789.
Date: c. 1789Reference: 28796i- Books
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The optick glasse of humors or The touchstone of a golden temperature, or the Philosophers stone to make a golden temper : Wherein the foure complections sanguine, cholericke, phligmaticke, melancholicke are succinctly painted forth and their externall intimates laid open to the purblind eye of ignorance it selfe, by which euery one may iudge, of what complection he is, and answerably learne what is most sutable to his nature. By T.W. Master of Artes.
Walkington, Thomas, -1621Date: [1631?]- Books
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The optick glasse of humors or The touchstone of a golden temperature, or the Philosophers stone to make a golden temper : Wherein the foure complections sanguine, cholericke, phligmaticke, melancholicke are succinctly painted forth and their externall intimates laid open to the purblind eye of ignorance it selfe, by which euery one may iudge, of what complection he is, and answerably learne what is most sutable to his nature. / By T.W. Master of Artes.
Walkington, Thomas, -1621Date: [1631?]- Books
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The optick glasse of humors, or, The touchstone of a golden temperature, or, The philosophers stone to make a golden temper : wherein the foure complexions, sangume [sic], cholericke, phligmaticke, melancholicke, are succinctly painted forth, and their externall intimates laid open to the purblind eye of ignorance it self, by which every one may judge of what complexion he is, and answerably learne what is most sutable to his nature / by T.W.
Walkington, Thomas, -1621Date: 1664- Books
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The optick glasse of humors or The touchstone of a golden temperature, or the Philosophers stone to make a golden temper : Wherein the foure complections sanguine, cholericke, phligmaticke, melancholicke are succinctly painted forth and their externall intimates laid open to the purblind eye of ignorance it selfe, by which euery one may iudge, of what complection he is, and answerably learne what is most sutable to his nature. By T.W. Master of Artes.
Walkington, Thomas, -1621Date: 1639- Books
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The optick glasse of humors. Or The touchstone of a golden temperature, or the Philosophers stone to make a golden temper : wherein the foure complections sanguine, cholericke, phlegmaticke, melancholicke are succinctly painted forth, and their externall intimates laide open to the purblind eye of ignorance it selfe, by which euery one may iudge of what complection he is, and answerably learne what is most sutable to his nature. Lately pend by T.W. Master of Artes.
Walkington, Thomas, -1621Date: 1607- Pictures
Apollo presiding over a gentleman of sensual appetite; representing the sanguine temperament. Etching by J.D. Nessenthaler, ca. 1750.
Nessenthaler, Johann David, 1717?-1766.Reference: 26899i- Pictures
A depressed scholar surrounded by mythological figures; representing the melancholy temperament. Etching by J.D. Nessenthaler, ca. 1750.
Nessenthaler, Johann David, 1717?-1766.Reference: 26893i- Pictures
The goddess Diana presiding over military figures representing the choleric temperament. Etching by J.D. Nessenthaler, ca. 1750.
Nessenthaler, Johann David, 1717?-1766.Reference: 26898i- Pictures
Neptune presiding over a businessman making money through investment and a man drinking beer; representing the phlegmatic temperament. Etching by J.D. Nessenthaler.
Nessenthaler, Johann David, 1717?-1766.Reference: 26892i- Books
A newly discovered and possibly the earliest known pictorial representation of Parkinsonian (?) encephalitis lethargica / by G. Vandendriessche.
Vandendriessche, G.Date: 1991- Archives and manuscripts
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Galenic miscellany
Galen, Claudius, 131-201Date: Early 14th CenturyReference: MS.285- Pictures
A head containing over thirty images symbolising the phrenological faculties, accompanied by a key. Coloured lithograph, c. 1875, after O.S. Fowler (?).
Fowler, O. S. (Orson Squire), 1809-1887.Reference: 28595i- Archives and manuscripts
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The Regiment of Healthe
Date: 1625-1682Reference: MS.674- Pictures
Saint Cosmas and Saint Damian before the judge (?) (above) and Saint Cosmas (below). Oil painting by a Spanish painter, ca. 1600.
Date: [1600?]Reference: 45988iPart of: Sacred subjects: episodes in the New Testament, apostles, saints, and martyrdoms. Tempera and oil paintings, 13-- and ca. 1600.- Pictures
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Saint Cosmas and Saint Damian being taken to martyrdom (above) and Saint Damian (below). Oil painting by a Spanish painter, ca. 1600 (?).
Date: [1600?]Reference: 45992iPart of: Sacred subjects: episodes in the New Testament, apostles, saints, and martyrdoms. Tempera and oil paintings, 13-- and ca. 1600.- Pictures
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A bath-house containing six men and an onlooker, perhaps an allegory of the four humours and five senses. Photolithograph after A. Dürer, c. 1496.
Dürer, Albrecht, 1471-1528.Date: 1800-1899Reference: 18228i- Digital Images
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Man with viscera exposed and signs of zodiac affecting them.
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Collection of medical works, etc. in Italian and Latin (Miscellanea Medica II)
Date: c.1465Reference: MS.532- Books
Histoire des plantes, en laquelle est contenue la description entière des herbes, c'est à dire, leurs espèces, forme, noms, tempérament, vertus et operations, non seulement de celles qui croissent en ce païs, mais aussi des autres estrangères qui viennent en usage de medécine Nouvellement traduite de bas Aleman en François par Charles de L'Escluse.
Dodoens, Rembert, 1517-1585Date: 1557- Archives and manuscripts
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Chyromancy or Palmestrye. Also Physiognomy and Metoposcopie
Date: 1648Reference: MS.8727