It moved from depicting the rural poor in the countryside, to scientists teaching, a major research meeting, technology in the workplace, and the rise of the clinic in hospital medicine.
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From those run and staffed by religious orders around 1600 to the 19th century’s revolution in nursing, and dazzlingly white interiors with radiators.
From 1875 on, paintings of surgical procedures, heroes of medical and surgical advances, and the new clinical look of hospitals.
From physicists to photographers developing their plates, Naturalist painters recorded the science and technology of their time.
Transformation in the late 19th century, shown in paintings by van Gogh, John Singer Sargent, and others.
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