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HUM321: I Feel Your Pain

Death and Life by Gistav Klimt. A robed skeleton looking onto a group of people on a dark background.

Death and Life by Gustav Klimt

Klimt, G. (1908). Death and life [Painting]. The Leopold Museum, Vienna, Austria. https://www.leopoldmuseum.org/en/collection/highlights/146

The Migration Series, Panel No. 55 by Jacob Lawrence. Three figures in dark clothing with a flowered casket looming above them (casein tempera on hardboard)

The Migration Series, Panel No. 55 by Jacob Lawrence

Lawrence, J. (1940). The migration series, panel no. 55 [Painting, casein tempera on hardboard]. The Phillips Collection. https://www.phillipscollection.org/collection/migration-series-panel-no-55-migrants-having-moved-suddenly-crowded-and-unhealthy

La Jeune Fille Et La Mort by Marianne Stokes. A young girl sitting up in bed with a dark angel-like figure sitting across from her (oil on canvas)

La Jeune Fille Et La Mort by Marianne Stokes

Stokes, M. (1908). La jeune fille et la mort [Painting, oil on canvas]. By Rama. Musée d'Orsay. https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:La_Jeune_Fille_et_la_Mort-Marianne_Stokes-IMG_8224.JPG

The Sick Child by Edward Munch. A woman kneels at the bedside of a young sick girl (oil on canvas)

The Sick Child by Edward Munch

Munch, E. (1907). The sick child [Painting, oil on canvas]. By Ove Kvavik. The Munch Museum. https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Edvard_Munch_-_The_Sick_Child_-_MM.M.00052_-_Munch_Museum.jpg

The Doctor's Visit by Jacob Toorenvliet. A bearded doctor takes a woman’s pulse while examining a flask containing fluid. A child and another woman stand by (oil on copper)

The Doctor's Visit by Jacob Toorenvliet

Toorenvliet, J. (1667). The doctor's visit [Painting, oil on copper]. The Leiden Collection. https://www.theleidencollection.com/artwork/the-doctors-visit/

Santa Isabel de Hungría curando a los tiñosos by Bartolomé Esteban Murillo. Saint Elizabeth holds a sick child's head over a basic as she tends to his wounds (oil on linen)

Santa Isabel de Hungría Curando a Los Tiñosos by Bartolomé Esteban Murillo

Murillo, B. E. (1672). Santa Isabel de Hungría curando a los tiñosos [Painting, oil on linen]. Hospital de la Santa Caridad. https://es.wikipedia.org/wiki/Archivo:Santa_Isabel_de_Hungr%C3%ADa_curando_ti%C3%B1osos..jpg

A girl reads to a convalescent while a nurse brings in the patient's medicine by Robert Humphrey Giles (watercolor with ink)

A Girl Reads to a Convalescent While a Nurse Brings in the Patient's Medicine by Robert Humphrey Giles

Giles, R. H. (1800-1889). A girl reads to a convalescent while a nurse brings in the patient's medicine [Painting, watercolor with ink]. Wellcome Collection. https://wellcomecollection.org/works/w4m4264r/items

The Wounded Deer by Frida Khalo. A deer running through the forest with Khalo's head and 9 arrows stuck in its bleeding body

The Wounded Deer by Frida Khalo

Khalo, F. (1946). The wounded deer [Painting]. By Kiara Marcano. Collection of Carolyn Farb Houston. https://exhibition.commons.gc.cuny.edu/the-wounded-deer-1946/

Awaiting His Return by Charles White

Awaiting His Return by Charles White

White, C. (1945). Awaiting his return [Lithograph in black on wove paper]. National Gallery of Art. https://www.facebook.com/nationalgalleryofart/photos/a.430632363043/10156177546748044

La Mélancolie by Louis Jean-François Lagrenée. Young girl dressed in robe looking down sadly with her head resting on her hand

La Mélancolie by Louis Jean-François

Lagrenée, L. J-F. (1785). La mélancolie [Painting]. Musée du Louvre, Département des Peintures. https://collections.louvre.fr/en/ark:/53355/cl010059286

Anguish by August Friedrich Schenck. A mother ewe stands over her dead calf looking distraught as black crows surround them in a snowy field

Anguish by August Friedrich Schenck

Schenck, A.F. (1876-1880). Anguish [Painting]. National Gallery of Victoria. https://artsandculture.google.com/asset/FgFqdCscXdr_ZA

Sorrowing Old Man ('At Eternity's Gate') by Vincent van Gogh

Sorrowing Old Man ('At Eternity's Gate') by Vincent van Gogh

Van Gogh, V. (1890). Sorrowing old man ('At eternity's gate') [Oil on canvas]. Kröller-Müller Museum. https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Van_Gogh_-_Trauernder_alter_Mann.jpeg

The Death of Socrates by Jacques Louis David

The Death of Socrates by Jacques Louis David

David, J.L. (1787). The death of Socrates. Catharine Lorillard Wolfe Collection, Wolfe Fund. https://www.metmuseum.org/art/collection/search/436105