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Description: | This scene is painted onto what is probably a domestic plate. Moralising scenes painted on these plates were popular in the sixteenth-century Netherlands. Of the scenes from everyday life depicted in seventeenth-century Dutch and Flemish art, it was the profession of medicine that was often lampooned. In these, the doctor, or quack as he was referred to, is often depicted as a deceiving charlatan, marketing his products with impressive but unsubstantiated claims about their effectiveness. In this scene, the quack is shown examining a flask of urine, the ancient art of uroscopy, in order to obtain a diagnosis of the ailment. Although a date of 1549 is inscribed on this scene, this might not be the original date. | Subjects: | figure; landscape; everyday life; still life | Source: | Vads | Creator: | Artist: Unknown Æ | Identifier: | http://www.vads.ac.uk/large.php?uid=8335... | Go to resource |
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