Christine M. Boeckl - Images of Leprosy: Disease, Religion, and Politics in European Art

Images of Leprosy

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M ICHAEL W OLFE

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Johns Hopkins University

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Stanford University

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Princeton Theological Seminary

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University of Arizona

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University of Missouri, Emeritus

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Truman State University, Emeritus

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Images of Leprosy

Disease, Religion, and Politics in European Art

Christine M. Boeckl

Truman State University Press

Kirksville, Missouri

Copyright 2011 Truman State University Press, Kirksville, Missouri USA

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Cover: St. Elizabeth Bathes a Leprous Patient, 147077, painted panel. Detail of main altar, St. Elizabeth Cathedral, Koice, Slovakia. (Image courtesy of St. Elizabeth Cathedral, Koice, Slovakia)

Cover design: Teresa Wheeler

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Library of Congress Cataloging-in-Publication Data

Boeckl, Christine M., 1933

Images of leprosy : disease, religion, and politics in European art / Christine M. Boeckl.

p. cm. (Early modern studies series ; v. 7)

Includes bibliographical references and index.

ISBN 978-1-935503-14-9 (cloth : alk. paper) ISBN 978-1-935503-15-6 (pbk. : alk. paper)

1. Leprosy in art. 2. Art, EuropeanThemes, motives. I. Title. II. Title: Disease, religion, and politics in European art.

N8219.L35B64 2011

704.9'49616998dc22

2011003348

No part of this work may be reproduced or transmitted in any format by any means without written permission from the publisher.

Illustrations

Patient with Lepromatous Leprosy, 1931.

Same Patient with Lepromatous Leprosy, 1933.

Leprosy Case Observed on Street.

Patient with Late Neural [Borderline?] Leprosy.

Reconstructive Surgeon Examines Young Patient with Flexion Deformity of Hand; comparison with a detail from a fifteenth-century painting (fig. 3.4).

Trained Technician with The Leprosy Mission Instructs Patient in Care of Artificial Limb.

Map of Norway, Average Incidence Rates of Leprosy by County (18511920).

The Suffering Job and His Wife, detail of Sarcophagus of Junius Bassus.

Annual Leprosy Inspection, 1493, woodcut from broadsheet.

Cover of Codex Aureus, ca. 870, gold relief.

Christ Healing a Leper, detail from cover of Codex Aureus, ca. 870, gold relief (fig. 2.3).

Lepers Head, detail of Christ Healing a Leper from cover of Codex Aureus (fig. 2.4).

Christ Healing a Leper, from Gospel Book of Otto III, ca. 1000, book illumination.

Christ Healing a Leper, comparison of details from fig. 2.6.

Lazarus and Dives, detail of cloister column, Abbey of Cadouin, France.

Head of Lazarus, detail from Lazarus and Dives (fig. 2.8); comparison with Patient with Lepromatous Leprosy.

Hans Holbein the Younger, Head of a Young Man, 1523, drawing.

Aureliano Milani, St. Aloysius of Gonzaga (?)Administering the Viaticum to a Plague Victim, first quarter 18th century, oil on canvas.

William of Tyre Discovers Baldwin IVs First Symptoms of Leprosy, 14th century, book illumination.

Inspection of Leprous Patients, woodcut in Hans von Gersdorff, Feldbuch der Wundartznei (Strasbourg: Johannes Schott, 1517), p. 67.

St. Elizabeth Bathes a Leprous Patient, 147077, detail of main altar, St. Elizabeth Cathedral, Koice, Slovakia.

Gentile da Fabriano, The Crippled and the Sick Cured at the Tomb of St. Nicholas, 1425, painted panel.

Josaphat Meets a Leper and a Cripple at the Gate of Jerusalem, detail from Vincent Beauvais, Miroir Historial, fol. 373, book illumination.

Cornelis Engebrechtsz, Naamans Cure in the Jordan, detail of Naaman Triptych, ca. 1524, painted panel.

Christ Healing a Leper, detail from Andrews Diptych, 9th century?, ivory relief.

Detail from Christ Healing Ten Lepers, 12th century, mosaic, Cathedral of Monreale, Sicily.

Detail from Emperor Constantine Struck with Leprosy, ca. 1240, fresco, Capella di San Silvestro, Santi Quattro Coronati, Rome.

Detail from Pope Sylvester Baptizes Emperor Constantine, ca. 1240, fresco, Capella di San Silvestro, Santi Quattro Coronati, Rome.

St. Martin and a Leprous Beggar, detail from Ceriny Altar, painted panel.

Israel van Meckenem, St. Elizabeth with a Leprous Beggar (Die Heilige Elisabeth), 147580, engraving.

St. Elzar of Sabran Ministering to Leprosy Patients, ca. 1373, marble carving.

Detail from Christ Healing a Leper, 12th century, mosaic, Cathedral of Monreale, Sicily.

Detail from Emperor Constantine Struck with Leprosy, ca. 1240, fresco, Capella di San Silvestro, Santi Quattro Coronati, Rome.

Detail from Constantine Offers the Tiara to Sylvester, ca. 1246, fresco, Capella di San Silvestro, Santi Quattro Coronati, Rome.

Detail of Officium Stratoris, ca. 1246, fresco, Capella di San Silvestro, Santi Quattro Coronati, Rome.

Prefect Tarquinius Interrogating St. Sylvester, 1322, fresco. Detail of Legend of Sylvester, Constantine, and Helena, fresco, Hohe Domkirche St. Peter und Maria, Cologne.

St. Peregrinus, the Leprous Pilgrim, 135051, book illumination.

St. Elizabeth Placing a Leper in Her Husbands Bed, detail of Holy Kinship Altar, 1516?, painted panel, Smrecany Church, Slovakia.

St. Elizabeths Eviction from Wartburg (left) and St. Elizabeth Bathes a Leprous Patient (right), details of Holy Kinship Altar, 1516?, painted panel, Smrecany Church, Slovakia.

Hans Holbein the Elder, St. Elizabeth with Three Male Petitioners, 1516, painted panel, right wing, Sebastians Altar.

Cosimo Rosselli, Christ Healing a Leper, detail of The Sermon on the Mount, 1481, fresco, Sistine Chapel, Vatican Palace.

Christ Healing a Leper, a comparison of details from figs. 2.6 and 7.1.

Cornelis Engebrechtsz, Naaman Triptych, ca. 1524, painted panel.

Cornelis Engebrechtsz, SS. Cosmos and Damian, 1524, detail of Naaman Triptych (fig. 7.3).

Cornelis Engebrechtsz, Soldier[?]: The Leprous Naaman, 1524, detail of Naaman Triptych (fig. 7.3).

Cornelis Engebrechtsz, Soldier[?]: The Leprous Gehazi, 1524, detail of Naaman Triptych (fig. 7.3).

Hieronymus Bosch, St. Bavo Giving Alms to the Poor and Sick, ca. 150408, right outer wing of the Altar of the Last Judgment, painted panel.