Painting as medicine in early modern rome giulio mancini and the efficacy of art frances gage gage breaks fertile new ground for the history of medicine and religious studies as well as art history and the history of collections. Frances gages painting as medicine in early modern rome giulio mancini and the efficacy of art investigates the medical rationales for collecting art that are scattered throughout a well known treatise by giulio mancini 1559 1630 pope urban viiis physician mancinis medical thought was retardataire in the era of the lincei but his artistic connoisseurship was innovative. Frances gage painting as medicine in early modern rome giulio mancini and the efficacy of artuniversity park pennsylvania state university press 2016 xiv 228 pp illus 8995 cloth. Painting as medicine in early modern rome giulio mancini and the efficacy of art painting as medicine in early modern rome giulio mancini and the efficacy of art journal of the history of medicine and allied sciences volume 72 issue 2 1 april 2017 pages 225 227 . Painting as medicine in early modern rome giulio mancini and the efficacy of art responsibility frances gage publication university park pennsylvania the pennsylvania state university press 2016 through a study of the writings of the papal physician and art critic giulio mancini explores early modern art collecting in italy