Entrance Hall

The Entrance Hall of the Faculté de Médecine in Montpellier is a room of notable dimensions (20m x 8.5m). It is decorated with 16 terracotta busts of ancient physicians or early masters of the school.

Among them we can notice: Aulus Cornelius Celsus, Claudius Galen, Andreas Vesalius, Paolo Zacchia, Guillaume de Baillou, Jean Pecquet, François Mauriceau, Georg Ernst Stahl, Giovanni Battista Morgagni, Albrecht von Haller, Paul Joseph Barthez.

On the Hall’s walls some memorial tablets remember famous students and benefactors of the medical school.

• Photos by Andrea Angelucci (February 2024)

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