Imagine a Victorian drawing room adorned with an imposing canvas: a gigantic, almost rectangular cow, perched on slender legs, looking as if it’s about to swallow a village. This is much more than a work of art: it’s a visual manifesto of power, wealth… and a certain aristocratic sense of humor. Welcome to the curious world of […]
What if certain works of art, long before the rise of modern medicine, preserved in spite of themselves the visible signs of disease? This is precisely the premise of iconodiagnosis: an approach at the crossroads of medicine and art history that involves identifying pathological signs in human representations from the visual arts – painting, sculpture, mosaic, illuminated […]
Mysterious, solemn and steeped in history, the Vatican conclave is the process by which the cardinals elect a new pope. It is behind the closed doors of the Sistine Chapel, in an atmosphere steeped in centuries-old traditions, that the election is played out. But did you know that the Conclave has its origins in a particularly unusual […]
