Citation

Sonoc AG, Bota G. Brukenthal. Acta Musei 2016; 11(2): 277-291.

Copyright

(Copyright © 2016)

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Abstract

Most medical scenes from the collection of European painting of the Brukenthal National Museum are connected with the diagnosis by uroscopy, which is openly mocked in one of them. They are all creations of 17th century painters from the Netherlands. A single painting, also by a Netherlandish painter from the 17th century, depicts blood-letting. Another work by the Austrian-Italian painter Martino Altomonte (Hohenberg), shows the suicide of L. Annaeus Seneca by exsanguination and could be dated in the early 18th century.

Language: en

Keywords

Blood-letting bleeding to death; Death of Seneca; Medical scene; Uroscopy and uromancy