Art After the Plague: HOW PAINTERS THROUGH THE AGES HAVE RESPONDED TO CONTAGION, PESTILENCE, AND DEADLY EPIDEMICS.
The article focuses on how painters have responded through their paintings to contagion, pestilence and deadly epidemics. It mentions frescoes were nearly destroyed when an Allied bomb struck the cemetery in 1944, incinerating the wooden roof of the monumental cloister and the beaten reeds that anch...
| Publicado en: | American Scholar Vol. 89; no. 4; pp. 48 - 57 |
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Phi Beta Kappa Society
Autumn2020
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| Sumario: | The article focuses on how painters have responded through their paintings to contagion, pestilence and deadly epidemics. It mentions frescoes were nearly destroyed when an Allied bomb struck the cemetery in 1944, incinerating the wooden roof of the monumental cloister and the beaten reeds that anchored the frescoed plaster to the building's marble walls. It also mentions pale horse and his rider sweep across the landscape. |
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