Feminae: Medieval Women and Gender Index
Home
What is Feminae?
What's Indexed?
Subjects
Broad Topics
Journals
Essays
All Image Records
Contact Feminae
SMFS
Other Resources
Admin (staff only)
There are 44,753 records currently in Feminae
Quick Search
Advanced Search
Article of the Month
Translation of the Month
Image of the Month
Special Features
Click to view high resolution image
Title:
Warm Water
Creator:
Workshop of Giovannino de Grassi, painter
Description:
The "Tacuinum sanitatis" was an eleventh-century health handbook written by Ibn Butlan of Baghdad. In it he presents the elements needed for a healthful and happy life. He notes that warm water helps clean the stomach and is recommended in cold climates. In the fourteenth-century illustrated versions the emphasis is on picturing attractive scenes drawing on themes from courtly love, fashionable dress, and estate management for an idealized view of agriculture and food production. This picture depicts two women, one seated with her legs in a bucket of warm water, and the other kneeling on the ground, washing the legs of the seated woman. A pot of water being boiled over a fire can be seen in the background.
Source:
Wikimedia Commons
Rights:
Public Domain
Subject
(See Also)
:
Bathing
Domestic Space
Medical Manuscripts
Water
Work
Geographic Area:
Italy
Century:
Date:
1390- 1400 (?)
Related Work:
Tacuinum sanitatis, a medical treatise. Also known as the Theatrum sanitatis.
Current Location:
Vienna, Österreichische Nationalbibliothek, MS series nova 2644, fol. 89
Original Location:
Artistic Type (Category):
Digital images; Manuscript Illuminations
Artistic Type (Material/Technique):
Vellum (parchment); Paint
Donor:
Layman; Probably commissioned by Giangaleazzo Visconti, Count of Milan, or nobility at his court.
Height/Width/Length(cm):
//
Inscription:
Related Resources:
Cathleen Hoeniger, "The Illuminated
Tacuinum sanitatis
Manuscripts from Northern Italy ca. 1380-1400: Sources, Patrons, and the Creation of a New Pictorial Genre." Visualizing Medieval Medicine and Natural History, 1200-1550. Edited by Jean A. Givens, Karen M. Reeds, and Alain Touwaide. Ashgate,2006. Pp. 51-81.