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The Physician as God

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Description: Prints and the Pursuit of Knowledge in Early Modern Europe
~~Allegory, the depiction of abstract concepts through physical embodiments, was a common mode of representation in the sixteenth century. Allegories often took the form of personifications—classicized figures, usually female, adorned with the attributes of their subjects. Corresponding with the period’s new reliance on...
PublisherHarvard Art Museums
Related print edition pages: pp.357-409
https://doi.org/10.37862/aaeportal.00097.015

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