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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...

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Published in:American Scholar Vol. 89; no. 4; pp. 48 - 57
Main Author: ROWLAND, INGRID D.
Format: Article
Published: Phi Beta Kappa Society Autumn2020
Subjects:
Painters
Communicable diseases
Pandemics
Fresco painting
Landscape painting
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