Description
- Abstract:
- A reproduction of a painting of one of the classrooms of the Salpêtrière Hospital by Tony Robert-Fleury. By the late 18th century, the hospital served as a teaching facility, and some of the classroom held paintings representing major advances in psychiatric medicine. Presented at the Salon of 1876, this painting represents the father of modern psychiatric care, Philippe Pinel, who was intrumental in developping more humane treatment for mentally ill patients. In this painting, Pinel is metaphorically liberating the patients he visits by ordering their chains be removed.
Citation
Robert-Fleury, Tony,
"Pinel faisant tomber les chaînes des aliénés (1795):
(Salle des cours de la clinique neurologique)
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(1925).
Paris: Capital of the 19th Century.
Brown Digital Repository. Brown University Library.
https://repository.library.brown.edu/studio/item/bdr:1102242/
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Paris: Capital of the 19th Century
...The project, "Paris, Capital of the 19th century," initiated by the French Studies and Comparative Literature Departments of Brown University, provides a window into the cultural, political and social context of 19th century Parisian culture.
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