Tag Archives: Katrina Genuis

Food of the body

October 17, 2018

Katrina Genuis Vancouver, Canada   Pero and Cimon Fresco, 50 to 79 CE, unknown artist, Pompeii, Casa IX. Copyright of photograph attributed to Stefano Bolognini. Two thousand years ago, the Roman writer Valerius Maximus documented a particularly strange set of events. In his collection Memorable Doings and Sayings, Maximus recounts thousands of episodes of exemplary […]

Death and new-doctor eyes

March 21, 2018

Katrina Genuis Vancouver, Canada   With slim cuts to her wrists, she came into the emergency room and said she wanted to die. “This is clearly a cry for attention,” others said. “Send the new doctor to stitch her up.” I sat by her bed with a 30-gauge lidocaine-filled needle and 4.0 nylon sutures, and […]

The Isenheim Altarpiece and ‘homeopathic’ hospital art

March 13, 2017

Katrina Genuis Canada   Figure 1: Isenheim Altarpiece, First View. Matthias Grünewald, 1512-1516. Unterlindin Museum, Colmar, France. Source. Art found in hospitals generally has the aim of comforting the viewer. Presumably, ill patients or exhausted on-call physicians who amble past pastoral countryside scenes or watercolour flowers are reminded that despite their current difficultly there is […]

The death of Francesca Tornabuoni: examining childbirth amidst societal rebirth

January 27, 2017

Katrina Genuis Victoria, Canada   Figure 1: The Death of Francesca Tornabuoni, c.1478-79 Marble Relief Sculpture. From the workshop of Andrea del Verrocchio. Museo Nazionale del Bargello, Florence, Italy Introduction The Italian Renaissance. These mere words herald a mental avalanche of associations; images of flourishing architecture, fresco paintings, overflowing libraries, and expanding commerce flow into […]