Kashgar’s Eminent Bard Abdurehim Heyit and his Art

Emperor Akbar as a healer and his eminent physicians.

Akbar, however, was himself considered to be a healer to be healer by his miraculous powers. The court physician was one of the top-most officers of the court. Hakim Humam was such a physician who was one of the nine jewels (nauratnas) of Akbar. In 1581, Akbar curtailed the powers of Sadr (or Sadr-i-Jahan, the chief Justice and Administrator of the Empire) and he divided the empire in six zones...

Homer, His Art and His World [Review]

Brueghel: his art and his syndrome

The exhibition is a fascinating journey into the Golden Age of Flemish Paintings of the seventeenth century, in a search for the visionary genius of as many as five generations of artists. They are able to embody as one, like as nobody before or after them, the style and trends of more than a century of history of art. While the Italian Renaissance focuses attention on the human figure’s noble ...

Jesus, His Body and Face in Art

During the special showing of the Holy Shroud at Turin in Spring 2010, an art exhibit at the Venaria Reale – the Savoy hunting palace just outside the city – will focus on Western artists’ interest in the body of Christ as subject. With works of painting and sculpture from the late Middle Ages to the Baroque period (and some earlier pieces), the exhibit will parallel the religious event, sheddi...

The eminent Italian scholar Pietro d'Abano (1250-1315) and his contribution in anatomy.

Pietro d'Abano is recognized as a leading figure in the early history of European medical faculties. Translator and scholar, he translated and commented in Latin the doctrines of Greek and Arab physicians and philosophers having an ambitious attempt, to reconcile the opposing views of Arab medicine and Greek natural philosophy. Moreover he was one of the first to claim, three centuries before H...