Ποδολόγος του 1600...Isaac Koedijck (1618, Amsterdam – 1668, Amsterdam).
Barber-Surgeon tending a Peasant's Foot (1649-1650) [oil on panel with dimensions 91 cm height x 72 cm width].
Collection Rose-Marie and Eijk van Otterloo Collection (US art collection; part of Museum of Fine Arts, Boston).
Ενδιαφέροντα σχόλια από ομάδα του facebook:- A barber-surgeon on the way up, hoping to change guilds and be installed as a physician. He has the accoutrements of a man of learning and an enthusiast of the coming Age of Enlightenment. His crocodile (“wouldst eat a crocodile?” asks Hamlet, the ultimate pushy polymath), canary, harpoon, stone bow, alambic, terrestrial globe, specimen jars and drug flasks all point to someone who has risen above the level of artisanal beard-trimmer and fracture-strapper. But the level of display, especially the brace (=drill), implies an arriviste, not yet an established man of medicine. I don’t think it’s a trepanning drill, but hung high as it is it’d be seldom used thus.
The clincher, I think, is the mortar and pestle on the window-sill and then the skull…ultimate symbol of a Man-centred and questing Philosophy.
And there is no religious symbolism here. The home and study and laboratory of a humanist, what will in 125 years be called a Scientist. A man of skill and growing accomplishment and knowledge, but one who still needs to earn a crust by lancing and bandaging a customer’s stinky foot.
- Full of great little details. What's the symbolism of the open birdcage? (Other than "uh oh, the bird got out.")
- (That dead chicken on the floor is the patient's co-pay.)
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29 Δεκεμβρίου 2010, 16:08:53