Corporeal

 Girolamo Muziano
Raising of Lazarus
ca. 1555
drawing (study for painting)
British Museum

Andrea Boscoli
Acts of Mercy
ca. 1600
drawing
British Museum

Pieter Feddes after Martin Gheeraerts
Elderly Écorché
1614
etching
Museum für Angewandte Kunst, Vienna

Arnout Vinckenborch
Raising of Lazarus
ca. 1617-20
oil on panel
Rubenshuis, Antwerp

Domenico Tintoretto
Raising of Drusiana by St John the Evangelist
ca. 1626
drawing (study for painting)
British Museum

Alessandro Turchi (l'Orbetto)
St Roch
before 1649
drawing
Graphische Sammlung Albertina, Vienna

 

Karel Dujardin
The Sick Goat
ca. 1660-63
oil on canvas
Alte Pinakothek, Munich

Augustinus Terwesten
Anatomical Studies from Ancient Sculptures
(Arms of Farnese Hercules and Medici Venus)
ca. 1670-80
etching (study for drawing manual)
British Museum

Nicolas Colombel
Christ healing the Blind
1682
oil on canvas
Saint Louis Art Museum

Girolamo Ferroni after Simone Cantarini
St Peter and St John the Evangelist healing the Lame
ca. 1710-30
etching
British Museum

Étienne Parrocel
St Francis Regis interceding in 1616
for the plague-stricken of Toulouse
1739
drawing (study for painting)
British Museum

Antoine de Favray
Saints Cosmas and Damian dressing a Chest Wound
1748
oil on canvas
Wellcome Collection, London

Noël Hallé
Raising of Lazarus
ca. 1760
oil on canvas
Musée des Beaux-Arts de Reims

Thomas Stothard
Rescue of Serena and Sir Calepine
(illustration to the Faerie Queene)
1810
watercolor on paper (print study)
British Museum

William Strang
Anatomical Study
ca. 1879-80
drawing
British Museum

Jan Toorop
The Sick Child (Charley Toorop)
1898
hand-colored drypoint
British Museum

Alan Turner
Rescue
1974
oil on canvas
Whitney Museum of American Art, New York

from Of the Answers of the Oracle of Apollo at Delphos to Croesus King of Lydia

    Not to knowe things beyond the Arch of our intellectualls, or what spirits apprehend, is the imperfection of our nature not our Knowledge, and rather Inscience than Ignorance in man. Revelation might render a great part of the creation easie which now seemes beyond the stretch of human indagation; and welcome no doubt from good hands might bee a true Almagest or great celestial construction: A cleare systeme of the planeticall bodyes; of the invisible and seeming uselesse starres unto us; of the many sunnes in the eighth spheare, what they are, what they contrive, and unto what those stupendous bodies are more immediately serviceable. Butt this being not hinted in the Authentick Revelation and written booke of God, nor yet knowne how farre their discoveries are stinted; if the same should come unto us from the mouth of evell spirits, the belief thereof might bee as unsafe as the enquiries, and how farre to credit the father of darknesse and great obscurer of truth, might bee yet obscure unto us.    

– Sir Thomas Browne (1656)