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02 Works, Interpretations of Olympian deities, Sir Edward Poynter’s Two Visits to Aesculapius, with footnotes #39

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John William Waterhouse (1849–1917)
A Sick Child brought into the Temple of Aesculapius, c. 1877
Oil on canvas
height: 170 cm; width: 208 cm
Private collection

Aesculapius was the Greek god of healing and medicine, and is symbolised by a snake curled around a staff. In a scene taken from a poem by the Elizabethan Thomas Watson…

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