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The Difficult Question
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Early in his career, Jacob Meyer de Haan (also known as Isaac Meyer de Haan) was known for his Jewish genre paintings. In this one, painted in 1880 while de Haan still resided in the Netherlands, a…

Contributor:

Jacob Meyer de Haan

Places:

Paris, France

Date:

1889–1892

Subjects:

Education, Scholarship, Medicine, Philosophy, Modernity

Categories:

Visual & Material Culture, Painting
Painting of young woman standing next to three men seated at a table with open books.
Harvey Demonstrating the Circulation of the Blood to Charles I
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This painting depicts the seventeenth-century physician William Harvey demonstrating his discovery of blood circulation, a seminal moment in the history of modern medicine. Harvey, personal physician…

Contributor:

Benjamin-Eugène Fichel

Places:

Paris, France

Date:

1850

Subjects:

Medicine, Profession, Scholarship, Modernity, Body image

Categories:

Visual & Material Culture, Painting
Painting of well-dressed man in hat with plume and sword putting his hand on the chest of a nude man tied down prone on a table with face upturned and mouth open, as several well-dressed men look on from the far side of the table.