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sakrogoat:

Claude Paradin

sakrogoat:

In the early 16th century, much of doctors’ knowledge of the human body came from Galen, a physician from ancient Rome. 

Andreas Vesalius learned that in the Roman religion, the dissection of human bodies was forbidden, and that Galen’s version of human anatomy was likely speculation based on dissections of other animals. 

sakrogoat:

Hans Burgkmair - The Exorcism,

1799.

sakrogoat:

Claude Gillot - Is It an Enchantment; Is It an Illusion? 

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ughpsh:

There Minos stands. Paul Gustave Doré

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2headedsnake:

Thomas Nast - 19th century

On the Red Danube-Bless You My Children