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Plague is an 1898 painting in tempera by the Swiss symbolist artist Arnold Böcklin, held in the Kunstmuseum Basel. It exemplifies the artist's obsession with nightmares of war, pestilence and death. The painting shows Death riding on a bat-like winged creature who travels through a street in a medieval European town.
18 maj 2020 · Emily Kasriel explores the art of plague from the Black Death to current times. How have artists portrayed epidemics through history – and what can the art tell us about then and now?
9 mar 2020 · As the coronavirus spreads around the globe we want to envision you how famous artists presented plague in art - check 10 paintings to know!
29 lis 2021 · This painting by Lieferinxe was painted during the Renaissance but depicts a time where plague ravaged a community, specifically in Pavia, Italy in the 7th century. This was a smaller plague that occurred years before the infamous Black Death and depicts St. Sebastian pleading with God to save the sick and dying.
10 sie 2022 · Explore how artists depicted the horrors and consequences of the Black Death, a devastating epidemic that killed millions in Europe and Asia in the 14th century. See examples of famous paintings, such as The Plague of Ashdod by Nicolas Poussin, and learn about the historical and religious context of plague art.
22 paź 2021 · When Flemish Baroque artist Sir Anthony van Dyck moved from the north-western Italian city of Genoa to Palermo in 1624, he soon found the Sicilian city rife with plague. During the subsequent quarantine, van Dyck created six paintings depicting Saint Rosalia, the city’s patron saint.
30 lip 2021 · No civilisation has produced more painted representations of plague than Europe (and particularly Italy) during the period of the second pandemic (roughly 1347–1772). The images produced in these centuries reveal profound changes in the conception of the...
