Abstract

VARGAS-OLMOS, Rebeca. Muralism in hospitals. Expression of the relationship between art and medicine. Rev. sanid. mil. [online]. 2023, vol.77, n.4, e05.  Epub Mar 15, 2024. ISSN 0301-696X.  https://doi.org/10.56443/rsm.v77i4.609.

The purpose of this work is to show how medicine has been intertwined with the arts from its origin, and how this relationship has made it possible to illustrate through its expressions the activities performed by the doctor in the clinic, and in the medical lessons captured in various works throughout history, this connection has influenced the form of expression of one and the other over time; medical and daily life events were captured in different periods of prehistory and history, and their artists became the chroniclers of the most relevant events that occured in a certain place. From the appearance of the first hospitals in the Middle Ages there are artistic representations on their walls, originally with religious or mystical topics and later with medical themes until reaching the large murals captured in the hospitals of the first half of the twentieth century such is the case of Mexico where they have remained as evidence of the connection between art and medicine and have brought knowledge of the history of medicine to the experts in health sciences and to the general public.

Keywords : Ars; muralism; hospitals; medicine.

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