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Two hooded figures and a King grieve over a dead person while another masked figure comes to cleanse the room of the plague. Source: Wellcome Library, London
29 lis 2021 · During the Black Death, many people prayed to St. Sebastian with hopes of eradicating the disease from everyday life making St. Sebastian a popular saint in Medieval art who was depicted in images like the one below from the church of Saint-Crepin-Ibouvillers in France.
10 sie 2022 · This artwork sees us steer away from the Medieval times, as The Triumph of Death by Pieter Bruegel the Elder depicts the Black Death in a typically European village. The sight of an army of skeletons spreading devastation over a charred, barren landscape has stayed with many to this day.
Themes like the Dance of Death, the Triumph of Death, and the Three Living and the Three Dead, found in northern and southern European art, are often associated with the ravages of the Black Death.
31 sty 2023 · This Black Death artwork, by an unknown artist, shows a mass grave in the Belgian town of Tournai where Black Death victims were interred in mass graves. In a very narrow frame, we witness fifteen individuals carrying the coffins of their loved ones.
10.1 The Black Death: a timeline. The plague struck down people of all ages and from all walks of life. It is thought that the plague initially infected rodents like this black rat. 1330. CE. 1330s. Widespread famine and plague breaks out in north-eastern China. 1340.
The scholarly study of the Black Death began in Europe in the nineteenth century with the development of modern history based on source-criticism and social science. However, most of the research on the Black Death has been performed in the last four decades of the twentieth century.
