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3. Art has led the way in seeing mental illness not as alien or contemptible but part of the human condition ...

5. Art in Detail
Mental Illness in Art History

7. BOSCH, Hieronymus
Extraction of the Stone of Madness

8. BOSCH, Hieronymus
Extraction of the Stone of Madness
1475-80
Oil on panel, 48 x 35 cm
Museo del Prado, Madrid

9. Trepanning as a "cure" for mental illness

11. "Master, cut the stone out, my name is Lubbert Das.“
a luxuriant summer landscape
a monk
a woman balancing a book on her head
a man tied to a chair

12. ... and

13. a charlatan, with a upside-down funnel hat, that removes an object from the patient’s head

16. Tis not amiss to bore the skull with an instrument, to let outthe fuliginous vapors ...
Robert Burton, Anatomy of Melancholy, 1652

18. MUNCH, Edvard
Anxiety

19. MUNCH, Edvard
Anxiety
1894
oil on canvas, 94x74 cm
The Munch Museum, Oslo

20. Anxious dissociation after The Scream

25. GOGH, Vincent van
Portrait of Doctor Gachet (Musée d'Orsay)

26. GOGH, Vincent van
Portrait of Doctor Gachet
June 1890, Auvers-sur-Oise
Oil on canvas, 68 x 57 cm
Musée d'Orsay, Paris

27. Depressive symptoms

31. KAHLO, Frida
The Suicide of Dorothy Hale

32. KAHLO, Frida
The Suicide of Dorothy Hale
1938
Oil on masonite with, 60,4 x 48,6 cm.
Phoenix Art Museum, Phoenix

33. Suicide

37. ..."In the city of New York on the twenty-first day of the month of October, 1938, at six o'clock in the morning,
Mrs. Dorothy Hale committed suicide by throwing herself out of a very high window of the Hampshire House building.
In her memory. ...this retablo, executed by Frida Kahlo."

39. HOGARTH, William
In The Madhouse, A Rake's Progress series

40. HOGARTH, William
In The Madhouse, A Rake's Progress
series
1732-1735
Oil on canvas, 62.5 × 75 cm
Sir John Soane's Museum, London

41. Schizophrenia and Psychosis in a mental hospital

45. London’s Bethlehem Hospital for the poor and insane in the 1700s:
Tom Rakewell shackled by his left arm and right foot ... it's only the best psychiatric care at Bethlehem,
one man thinks he is a king, is naked, carrying a straw crown and sceptre,
a bloke has a sheet of music on his head and plays the fiddle,
another believes he’s the pope and is wearing a cone-shaped hat

46. ... and

47. two fashionable ladies are sightseeing –
for them, it’s an amusing day out observing by the bizarre antics of the lunatics

51. GOGH, Vincent van
Starry Night (Museum of Modern Art)

52. GOGH, Vincent van
Starry Night
June 1889, Saint-Rémy
Oil on canvas, 74 x 92 cm
Museum of Modern Art, New York

53. Recovery from drug-induced psychotic episode

56. Painted in June 1889 :
the view from the east-facing window of his asylum room at Saint-Rémy-de-Provence, just before sunrise

59. GOGH, Vincent van
Self-Portrait with Bandaged Ear

60. GOGH, Vincent van
Self-Portrait with Bandaged Ear
January 1889, Arles
Oil on canvas, 60 x 49 cm
Courtauld Gallery, London

61. Abuse of Absinthe and alcohol

63. ... cut off a portion of his ear
and left it at a brothel for a girl named Rachel telling her to “keep this object like a treasure”
...
following the incident he was sent to a sanitarium

66. VELÁZQUEZ, Diego Rodriguez de Silva y
The Dwarf Francisco Lezcano, "El Niño de Vallecas"

67. VELÁZQUEZ, Diego Rodriguez de
Silva y
The Dwarf Francisco Lezcano, "El
Niño de Vallecas"
1643-45
Oil on canvas, 107 x 83 cm
Museo del Prado, Madrid

68. hypothyroid dwarfism with intellectual disability

73. We dwarfs have no homeland, no parents;
we allow ourselves to born of strangers, in secret ...
so that our race should not die out ...
they sell us to powerful princes that we may amuse them with our misshapen bodies and be their jesters ...
thus did my mother sell me.
Pars Lagervist, The Dwarf

74. Art in Detail_ Mental Illness in Art History
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