The healing presence of art : a history of western art in hospitals / Richard Cork.

By:

Cork, Richard

Publication details: New Haven [Conn.] ; London : Yale University Press, c2012.Description: xi, 460 p. : ill. (some col.), photographs cmISBN:

9780300170368 (cloth : alk. paper)

Other title:

History of western art in hospitals

Subject(s):

DDC classification:

725/.51 23

LOC classification:

RA967 .C617 2012

Contents:

Introduction -- Salvation in Siena -- Madonna of mercy -- The Harrowing of Hell -- Rescuing the orphans -- Blood of the martyrs -- The burning sickness -- Portraying the patients -- Visions of redemption -- The anatomists knife and regents charity.

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Includes bibliographical references (p. 434-451) and index.

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