Venus standing on a heart, holding a sword that passes through another heart; a suppliant kneels before her; around them are various hearts, pierced with an arrow, aflame, sawn, stabbed, broken, in a vice, etc. Coloured photograph by E. Charles, 1967, after Meister Casper, ca. 1470.

  • Meister Casper, active approximately 1460-1480.
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view Venus standing on a heart, holding a sword that passes through another heart; a suppliant kneels before her; around them are various hearts, pierced with an arrow, aflame, sawn, stabbed, broken, in a vice, etc. Coloured photograph by E. Charles, 1967, after Meister Casper, ca. 1470.

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Venus standing on a heart, holding a sword that passes through another heart; a suppliant kneels before her; around them are various hearts, pierced with an arrow, aflame, sawn, stabbed, broken, in a vice, etc. Coloured photograph by E. Charles, 1967, after Meister Casper, ca. 1470. Attribution-NonCommercial 4.0 International (CC BY-NC 4.0). Source: Wellcome Collection.

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An allegory of the power of Venus

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[1967]

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1 photograph : photoprint, with gouache ; image 35.2 x 54 cm

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Mein Herz ist hert gefangen ... Casper.

References note

R. Lewinsohn, Eine Weltgeschichte des Herzens, Hamburg 1959, pl. vi, p. 90
The heart as symbol and organ: an historical exhibition displayed at the International Chest and Heart Conference, Eastbourne, 4th to 7th April, 1967, [London]: Wellcome Historical Medical Library, 1967, p. 6 (artwork by Elizabeth Charles)
The history of cardiology: an exhibition in the Wellcome Institute of the History of Medicine, London 1970, pp. 10-11

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