Hospital of Santa Maria della Scala, Siena: the care and management of the sick. Photographs by Fotografia Lombardi Siena, 18--, of fresco by Domenico di Bartolo, 1441-1442.

  • Domenico, di Bartolo, approximately 1400-approximately 1445.
Date:
[between 1800 and 1899?]
Reference:
665097i
  • Pictures

About this work

Description

Centre: the rector of the hospital, with possibly a physician and a surgeon (the latter with a pot of ointment). Left, two physicians discussing a prognosis from urine, and a sick man being placed on a mattress. Foreground, a surgeon treating a leg wound (or letting blood from the foot?). Right, a friar receiving the confession of a dying man, and some men carrying a bier

Publication/Creation

[Siena] : [Fotografia Lombardi Siena], [between 1800 and 1899?]

Physical description

3 photographs : photoprints, albumen

Contributors

Related material

Select images of this work were taken by the Wellcome Historical Medical Museum: WT/D/1/20/1/68/62

Reference

Wellcome Collection 665097i

Reproduction note

After: fresco in the Pellegrinaio or Pilgrims' Hall of the hospital of Santa Maria della Scala, Siena

Type/Technique

Languages

Subjects

Holdings

  • three photographs

Where to find it

  • whole fresco

    LocationStatusAccess
    Closed stores
    665097i.1

  • detail: left side of fresco

    LocationStatusAccess
    Closed stores
    665097i.2

  • detail: right side of fresco

    LocationStatusAccess
    Closed stores
    665097i.3

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