Salle Saint-Hugues, Hospices de Beaune, Beaune

Salle Saint-Hugues, created in 1645 for wealthy patients, and decorated with paintings by Isaac Moillon of the miracles of Christ and St Hugues, in Les Hospices de Beaune, or Hotel-Dieu de Beaune, a charitable almshouse and hospital for the poor, built 1443-57 by Flemish architect Jacques Wiscrer, and founded by Nicolas Rolin, chancellor of Burgundy, and his wife Guigone de Salins, in Beaune, Cote d'Or, Burgundy, France. The altarpiece, also by Isaac Moillon, represents the raising of children who died of the plague. The hospital was run by the nuns of the order of Les Soeurs Hospitalieres de Beaune, and remained a hospital until the 1970s. The building now houses the Musee de l'Histoire de la Medecine, or Museum of the History of Medicine, and is listed as a historic monument. Picture by Manuel Cohen

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13434728

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45118677

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7087px x 4724px (7.8MB)

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Manuel Cohen / Mary Evans

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Photograph by Manuel Cohen