Visual Arts in
The mini-MD

The mini-MD features artworks from all ages and cultures
in which the visual images complement, highlight, and elaborate
some of the core concepts covered in the program. 


Henri Matisse The Red Studio

Hans Rosbach Vita brevis, ars longa

Charles Laplante Alexander and Aristotle

Luke Fildes The Doctor

Leon-Augustin Lhermitte Claude Bernard

Jacques Nicolas Tardieu The Empirical Doctor

Rembrandt van Rijn The Anatomy Lesson of Dr. Nicolaes Tulp

Diego Velázquez Las Meninas

Camillo Miola The Oracle

Théobald Chartran Dr. René Laënnec 

Emili Casals i Camps A medical practitioner taking a lady’s pulse in a pharmacy

Rembrandt Woman Ill in Bed

Johannes de Ketham Disease Man

Leonardo da Vinci The fetus in the womb

Leonardo da Vinci Vitruvian Man

Leonardo da Vinci The muscles of the shoulder

Edgar Degas On the stage

Anonymous Lesson in dissection

Michelangelo David

Andreas Vesalius / Johan van Calcar Tertia Musculo

Leonardo da Vinci Heart and its Blood Vessels

Leonardo da Vinci Mechanics of Man

Gaël McGill Vesicle Trafficking

Gaël McGill Cell-Cell  Adhesion

Max Verworn Pseudopodia from different cells

William Harvey Demonstration of the Valves of the Veins & the Circulation

Gaël McGill Receptor Tyrosine Kinases

Gaël McGill Protein Synthesis

Gaël McGill Mitochondria

Paul Klee One Who Understands

How Looking at paintings became a required course in medical school

Bing AI / ChatGPT Brain in the manner of René Magritte

Santiago Ramón y Cajal Cortical Layers

Leonardo da Vinci Cerebral Ventricles

Bing AI / ChatGPT Brain in the manner of Henri Matisse

Leonardo da Vinci Anatomy of the Neck

Anonymous Sphinxes at Assos

Bing AI / ChatGPT Brain in the manner of Mary Cassatt

Mehmet Berkmen and Maria Peñil Cell to Cell

Nicolas Poussin The Plague at Ashdod

Edvard Munch The Sick Child

John Raphael Smith Edward Jenner

Abu al-Qasim al-Na’ini al-Isfahani Risala-yi Hummiyat

Tilman Riemenschneider Saints Christopher, Eustace, and Erasmus

Enrique Simonet Lombardo Anatomy of the heart; And she had a heart!; Autopsy

John Singer Sargent Gassed

Francisco Goya Self-portrait with Dr Arrieta

Bing AI / ChatGPT Brain in the manner of Gustav Klimt

Dioscorides Physician Preparing an Elixir

Francisco Goya Self-portrait with Dr Arrieta

Pompeo Batoni Sacred Heart of Jesus

Salvador Dalí The Veiled Heart

Leonardo da Vinci Heart Valves

Ebers Papyrus

Leonardo da Vince The Lungs

Caspar Netscher A physician inspecting a urine-flask brought by a woman

Opening decoration from Avicenna's Canon

Illustrated Medical Text in Thai Language and Script
Bing AI / ChatGPT Brain in the manner of Salvador Dalí

Keith Haring Ignorance = Fear, Silence = Death

Bing AI / ChatGPT Brain in the manner of Rembrandt

André Derain Charing Cross Bridge

Bing AI / ChatGPT Brain in the manner of Titian

Leonardo da Vinci The Brain

Henri Matisse The Red Studio

Jean Geoffrey Visiting Day at the Hospital

Pablo Picasso The  Sick Child

Francisco Goya El garrotillo (On Diphtheria)

Emile Carolus Leclercq The Physician's Verdict

Sonokochi Hasegawa From Conception to Delivery

Frida Kahlo Frida and Caesarean Operation

Grave Tablet of John Hunter at Westminster Abbey

Thomas Eakins The Gross Clinic

Anonymous Wound Man

Henry Tonks Saline Infusion - An incident in the British Red Cross Hospital, Arc-en-Barrois, 1915

Bing AI / ChatGPT Brain in the manner of Jackson Pollack

Francisco Goya Self-portrait with Dr Arrieta

Thomas Eakins The Agnew Clinic

Swabian wood-panel painting Limb transplantation miracle of Saints Cosmos and Damian

Robert C. Hinckley First Operation under Ether

Adalbert Franz Seligmann Theodor Billroth Operating

Mansur ibn Muhammad Fagih Ilyas Skeletal System

Apollonius of Kition Reduction of Joint Dislocations

Leonardo da Vinci The bones and muscles of the leg

Leonardo da Vinci Contact Lens Drawing

Leonardo da Vinci The Bladder

Anonymous Petrus, students, and attendant with a flask of urine

Martin Dohrn Removing a Brain Tumor

Hieronymus Bosch Extracting the Stone of Madness

Juan de Sevilla San Lucas (Saint Luke)

Leonardo da Vinci The cranium sectioned

Bing AI / ChatGPT Brain in the manner of Vincent Van Gogh

Edgar Degas Melancholy

Vincent van Gogh The Hospital at Arles

Bing AI / ChatGPT Brain in the manner of Piet Mondrian

Georges Chicotot The First Attempt to Treat Cancer with X-rays