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Footnotes
Episode 13 Plague and Arts
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Paintings and illustrations
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Pieter Bruegel the Elder, The Triumph of Death, c. 1562
Museo del Prado (Madrid)
Nicolas Poussin, The Plague of Ashdod, c. 1629-31
Louvre Museum (Paris)
Citizens of Tournai, Belgium, burying the Dead
The Chronicles of Gilles Li Muisis (1272-1352), f. 24v
Marcantonio Raimondi, The Morbetto, or The Plague of Phrygia, c. 1515-6
Art Institute Chicago
Anthony van Dyck, Saint Rosalia Interceding for the City of Palermo, c. 1624-5
Museo de Arte de Ponce (Puerto Rico)
Anthony van Dyck, Saint Rosalie Interceding for the Plague–Stricken of Palermo, c. 1624
Metropolitan Museum of Art
Illustration from a 1916 edition of Il Decameron
A tale from The Decameron, by John William Waterhouse
Illustration from a French edition of Il Decameron
[Codex Paris] Ms. 5070 - Bibliothèque de l'Arsenal (Paris, France)
Illustration from a ca. 1492 edition of Il Decameron published in Venice
Paulus Fürst, Engraving “Doctor Schnabel von Rom”, early 17th century
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Principal source
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Chiu, Remi. Plague and Music in the Renaissance (Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2017).
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Several related links
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https://www.dailyartmagazine.com/plague-in-art-10-paintings-coronavirus/
https://www.bbc.com/culture/article/20200514-how-art-has-depicted-plagues
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Saint_Rosalia
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