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"This miniature was originally included in an antiphonary volume illuminated by Sano di Pietro for the Hospital of Santa Maria della Scala in Siena. The scene inside the initial D illustrates one of the responses for the Feast of Saint Agatha…

1 print : 49 x 34 cm.
Technique:
lithograph

1 print : 32 x 18 cm.
Technique:
lithograph, color

panel
132 x 178 cm

"This is one of the most important examples of Venetian painting from the 16th century, signed and dated Sebastianus Venetus faciebat Rome 1520 on the parapet in the foreground, where the henchmen’s knife has been placed. In a…

black chalk and white heightening on blue prepared paper

From the cornucopia next to Bacchus tumbles a mixture of money, games (including playing cards, dice and a chessboard), medicine bottles, cups and ladles. To the right, Hygieia, daughter of Asklepios, holds the latter's attributes: a cock, and a…

engraving

Black and white photograph of a woman two years after amputation of the left breast and removal of the axillary glands for cancer. There is no local recurrence, and the movements of the left arm are free. There was, however, metastatic growth in the…

Interior view: a small snarling dog is keeping two handicapped men and a woman with a tumor on her neck away from a physician sitting at a desk in his office.

Tools feature in a locked cabinet to his left, including those used for mastectomies.