Ancient herbalists and scholars of medicinal lore (Galen, Pliny, Hippocrates etc.); and Venus and Adonis in the gardens of Adonis. Woodcut, 1532.
- Fries, Lorenz, approximately 1490-1531.
- Date:
- 1532
- Reference:
- 567399i
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Top row: Machaon and Podalirius; Hippocrates and Diocles of Carystus; Herophilus and Erasistratus; Asclepiades and Themison. Second row: Pliny and Theophrastus; Dioscorides and Crateuas; Soranus and Antonius Musa; Nicander and Oribasius. Third row: Saint Luke and Galen; Paulus (Aegineta?) and Serapion. Fourth row: Cosmas and Damian; Avicenna and Rhazes. Below, Adonis and Venus pluck flowers growing in a vase in the gardens of Adonis (lettered in Greek "Adonidos kēpoi")
Publication/Creation
[Strasburg] : [Balthazar Beek], 1532.
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1 print : woodcut ; image 25.5 x 17.9 cm
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Wellcome Collection 567399i
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Location Status Access Closed stores