From those run and staffed by religious orders around 1600 to the 19th century’s revolution in nursing, and dazzlingly white interiors with radiators.
Aranda
From 1875 on, paintings of surgical procedures, heroes of medical and surgical advances, and the new clinical look of hospitals.
The deathbed, hospital beds through the ages, and what we apparently get up to when we take a friend to bed.
Transformation in the late 19th century, shown in paintings by van Gogh, John Singer Sargent, and others.
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