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  • Workshop Speaking Hospitals (5 Feb 2026)

    05.02.2026 | Munich, Zentnerstraße 31, Institute of Art History, Room 004, or via Zoom Hospitals in the medieval and early modern periods were far more than places of medical care. They functioned as powerful communicative agents within urban societies, addressing rulers, civic communities, benefactors, and the faithful through architecture, images, ritual practices, and spatial organization.…

  • Decoding Lübeck’s Frescoes: Insights and Questions from a Recent Discovery

    A new discovery could hold the key to an enigmatic artifact. Similarities between a Heilsspiegel manuscript and the wall paintings in the Heiligen-Geist-Hospital in Lübeck suggest a connection — one that, however, raises further questions. In 1866, the church painter Christian Stolle uncovered wall paintings in the Heiligen-Geist-Hospital in Lübeck, which have since posed a…


ARCHIATER is a five-year Advanced Grant Project (2024-2029) funded by the European Research Council and bases at the LMU, Munich. The Archiater team studies the significance and role of art and architecture in hospitals prior to 1750. The project will examine hospital visual cultures, the agencies involved, and the imaginations at play in European cities by analysing the spaces, forms, themes, and designs, and reconstruct the transitions and changing values associated with hospital materiality.

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