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The eyes have it

In 1583, eye specialist Georg Bartisch published a book detailing the treatments he’d developed for various eye disorders. Today his approach seems to mix surprising innovation with entirely contemporary religious judgement.

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Lustmord and the three perspectives of murder

Artist Jenny Holzer's work shines a light on the three perspectives of sexual murder: the victim, the perpetrator and the observer.

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Sex and syphilis

Before antibiotics, syphilis unleashed centuries of misery, countered by desperate but largely useless remedies. With the spread of syphilis on the rise, it’s worth remembering what our forebears suffered.

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A symbol of a lost homeland

The story of one protective amulet from Palestine reveals a complex tale. Encompassing the personal history of an influential doctor and collector, it provides a window onto dispossession and exile, and the painful repercussions that are still felt today.

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  • Saint Boniface: he baptizes Germans. Engraving by H. Kipp after K. Clasen.
  • A battle between Romans and the Germans at Trier: the Germans are returning on a bridge over the river Moselle after having attacked the camp of the Romans, when the Romans counterattack. Etching by A. Tempesta after O. van Veen, 1612.
  • Franco-German War: a French soldier high in a tree orders a group of well equipped Germans to stop firing on him. Colour lithograph.
  • A skull; representing starving Germans who can be helped by the Netherlands Red Cross. Lithograph by A. van der Vossen, 1922 (?).
  • A skull; representing starving Germans who can be helped by the Netherlands Red Cross. Lithograph by A. van der Vossen, 1922 (?).
  • [French charity stamp showing a woman gestuting towards a burning town, a French tricolore flag in her right urging people to buy nothing from the Germans: "N'achetez rien aux Allemands"].
  • Led by the female personification of Germany, the representatives of Germans kneel to the left of the throne of Charles V, while the leaders of the protestant states stand on the right. Engraving after A. van der Does.
  • Bullet extractor: German
  • German chimney-sweep's costume.
  • Money weight balance, German. 1754
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