- adustion
- alchemy
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- Arthémidore
- Atlas
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- broadsheet
- cabinet of curiosities
- catastrophe
- cerebral melancholy
- crocodile
- Cupid
- delusion
- drugs
- erotic melancholy
- extraordinary cures
- extraordinary patients
- folie des grandeurs
- folly
- glass
- hallucinations
- headless
- hospital
- humours
- hypochondria
- imagination
- love
- lovesickness
- lycanthropy
- mania
- melancholia adusta
- melancholy
- metamorphosis
- museum
- music
- music therapy
- natural history
- over-study
- profession
- pulse
- religious melancholy
- remarkable cure
- Saturn
- snake
- Stratonice
- transformation
- vase
- Venus
- werewolf
Browsing 2 items in "erotic melancholy"
[The Power of Venus]
The goddess Venus standing on a sphere crowns the head of those fallen at her feet once they had been hit by Cupid's arrows; following the path to Vanity (Cursus Vanitatis), Blindness (Caecitas) is driving a cart of fools, pulled by Folly (Stultitia) & Lust (Voluptas), and pursued by Derision (Derisio).
Tags: broadsheet, Cupid, erotic melancholy, love, lovesickness, melancholy, Venus
La Maladie d'Antiochus
Type: Still Image
Author:Lairesse, Gérard de
Erasistratus, a physician, realising that Antiochus's illness is lovesickness for his stepmother Stratonice, by observing that Antiochus's pulse rate rises whenever he sees her. Engraving by P. Baquoy (1759-1829) after a drawing prepared A. Desenne (1785-1827) itself based on a painting by G. de Lairesse (1640-1711).