What is it about?
This is the third in a series of articles from my research into Louis Pasteur's life-long engagements with the fine arts. The first in the series is "Collaboration of Art and Science in Albert Edelfelt’s Portrait of Louis Pasteur: The Making of an Enduring Medical Icon," published by the late Richard E. Weisberg and myself in the Bulletin of the History of Medicine 89:1 (Spring 2015), 59-91. The second is Hansen and Weisberg, "Louis Pasteur's three artist compatriots—Henner, Pointelin, and Perraud: A story of friendship, science, and art in the 1870s and 1880s," Journal of Medical Biography 25:1 (2017), 18-27.
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Why is it important?
This is the third in a series of three articles from my research into Louis Pasteur's life-long engagements with the fine arts. The great French chemist was passionately devoted to the fine arts and had many close friendships with artists. All three articles presenting my discoveries about Louis Pasteur's relationship to the fine arts include important illustrations.
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This research project was begun in 2010 as a joint project of Bert Hansen with RIchard E. Weisberg, a former student, who had completed a dissertation about painting and medicine in late 19th century France. Unfortunately Richard Weisberg died in 2011. Hence the bulk of the research and all the writing for our three joint publications was the work of Bert Hansen alone
Bert Hansen
Baruch College of CUNY
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This page is a summary of: Louis Pasteur (1822–1895), his friendships with the artists Max Claudet (1840–1893) and Paul Dubois (1829–1905), and his public image in the 1870s and 1880s, Journal of Medical Biography, February 2017, SAGE Publications,
DOI: 10.1177/0967772015575889.
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