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Aesculapius (Roman deity)

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  • Patients sleeping in the temple of Aesculapius at Epidaurus. Oil painting by Ernest Board.
  • The Tetragrammaton and orders of heaven surmounting portraits of famous medical philosophers (Aesculapius, Hippocrates, Galen, Avicenna etc.) and John Woodall. Engraving by G. Glover, 1639.
  • Aesculapius. Engraving by I. Wagner after Antonio Maria (Girolamo) Zanetti and Antonio Maria (Alessandro) Zanetti.
  • Iris, Aesculapius and Flora routing death. Mezzotint by J.J. Haid, 1737, after J.W. Baumgartner.
  • Temple of Aesculapius at Cos, with a key to the buildings and a fragment of the Stoa. Oil painting by R. Caton, ca. 1906.
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    Aesculapius. Engraving by G. Dala after G. Busato.

    Busato, Giovanni, 1806-1886. | Date: 1800-1899 | Reference: 11289i
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    The temple of Aesculapius at Epidaurus: cross-section showing the statue of the deity. Watercolour by G.M. Goring and E. Kenna, 1911, after A. Defrasse.

    Defrasse, Alphonse, 1860-1939. | Reference: 45156i
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    Antonius Musa as Aesculapius (?). Line engraving by I. Bonaiuti after G.B. Borani.

    Borani, Giovanni Battista, active approximately 1810. | Date: [1810?] | Reference: 7104i
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    Twenty portraits of orators and physicians. Engraving by J.W. Cook, 1825.

    | Date: 1825 | Reference: 546736i
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    A female figure representing science trimming the lamp of life. Engraving by A. R. Freebairn, 1849, after W. Wyon.

    Wyon, William, 1795-1851. | Date: 1849 | Reference: 26215i
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