St. Elizabeth visiting the sick

Hl. Elisabeth, die Kranken besuchend IMG

Medieval and early modern depictions of hospital interiors show the hospital as a place of physical and spiritual care for the infirm, whereby medicine plays at most a subordinate role. In this painting, Frankfurt-born artist Adam Elsheimer focuses on Saint Elizabeth handing a meal to a sick person in a hospital.

Adam Elsheimer (1578–1610), St. Elizabeth visiting the sick, oil on copper, 27.8 x 20 cm, 1598; source: Wellcome Library, London, http://wellcomeimages.org/indexplus/image/L0015276.html, Creative Commons Some Rights Reserved Attribution-NonCommercial 4.0 International (CC BY-NC 4.0), https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc/4.0/deed.en.