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Footnotes
Episode 13 Plague and Arts
Paintings and illustrations
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
Principal source
Chiu, Remi. Plague and Music in the Renaissance (Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2017).
Several related links
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
