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Visual Representations of Healthy and Diseased Bodies in the Early Modern Period (1450–1750)
Dr Valentina Živković, a fellow of the Institute for Balkan Studies, Serbian Academy of Sciences and Arts, participated in the international scholarly conference Visual Representations of Healthy and Diseased Bodies in the Early Modern Period (1450–1750) in Munich (28–30 March 2019) by invitation from the Conference Chair, Dr Michael Stolberg, Professor of the History of Medicine, University of Wurzburg, and presented her paper “Plague Imagery and Reactions to the Plague in Istria: the Church of St. Roch in Draguć”. The purpose of the conference was to establish a dialogue between art historians and science historians in order to rid the approach to the subject of looking at “disease” from a hindsight perspective and to call attention to the need to analyse the written and visual sources in terms of Galen’s theory of medicine. The conference was a continuation of the work started in Italy in December 2017, when the Monash University Prato Centre had organised a conference on Representing Infirmity: Diseased Bodies in Renaissance and Early Modern Italy.