# Caring for the Sick \(detail\)

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## Artwork

- Artist: [DOMENICO DI BARTOLO](<https://beta.wga.hu/artists/domenico-di-bartolo-rfaf64660ab83c6>)
- Date: 1401-1450
- Technique: Fresco

## Commentary

In the Caring for the Sick Domenico combines specific portraiture with a sensitive treatment of the nude figure. The unidealized bodies of the sick man being placed in bed and the wounded man being washed rank among the most naturalistic figures in Quattrocento painting.

## Related artworks

- [Birth of the Baptist](<https://beta.wga.hu/artists/domenico-di-bartolo-rfaf64660ab83c6/birth-of-the-baptist-r76f7d57fe08d27>)
- [Caring for the Sick \(detail\)](<https://beta.wga.hu/artists/domenico-di-bartolo-rfaf64660ab83c6/caring-for-the-sick-detail-r4ea1a688278f9b>)
- [Caring for the Sick \(detail\)](<https://beta.wga.hu/artists/domenico-di-bartolo-rfaf64660ab83c6/caring-for-the-sick-detail-rba61708b85bc26>)
- [Caring for the Sick](<https://beta.wga.hu/artists/domenico-di-bartolo-rfaf64660ab83c6/caring-for-the-sick-rfa0c0ac8cb9d9e>)
- [Enlargement of the Hospital \(detail\)](<https://beta.wga.hu/artists/domenico-di-bartolo-rfaf64660ab83c6/enlargement-of-the-hospital-detail-rf8fa9b5e190280>)
- [Enlargement of the Hospital](<https://beta.wga.hu/artists/domenico-di-bartolo-rfaf64660ab83c6/enlargement-of-the-hospital-raf0ab06ed5eed8>)
- [Extension of the Privileges by Celestine III \(detail\)](<https://beta.wga.hu/artists/domenico-di-bartolo-rfaf64660ab83c6/extension-of-the-privileges-by-celestine-iii-detail-r88e816a5e72591>)
- [Extension of the Privileges by Celestine III](<https://beta.wga.hu/artists/domenico-di-bartolo-rfaf64660ab83c6/extension-of-the-privileges-by-celestine-iii-r39512e2b41c983>)
- [Feeding of the Poor \(detail\)](<https://beta.wga.hu/artists/domenico-di-bartolo-rfaf64660ab83c6/feeding-of-the-poor-detail-rf1c46413fb750c>)
- [Feeding of the Poor](<https://beta.wga.hu/artists/domenico-di-bartolo-rfaf64660ab83c6/feeding-of-the-poor-rc7c8619c6adcbd>)
- [Madonna of Humility](<https://beta.wga.hu/artists/domenico-di-bartolo-rfaf64660ab83c6/madonna-of-humility-r91423229a0b52b>)
- [Rearing and Marrying of Female Foundlings](<https://beta.wga.hu/artists/domenico-di-bartolo-rfaf64660ab83c6/rearing-and-marrying-of-female-foundlings-rddc514a8ced5b2>)

## Attribution

[Web Gallery of Art](<https://beta.wga.hu/pages/about>)