Images of Plague and Pestilence : : Iconography and Iconology / / Christine M. Boeckl.
Since the late fourteenth century, European artists created an extensive body of images, in paintings, prints, drawings, sculptures, and other media, about the horrors of disease and death, as well as hope and salvation. This interdisciplinary study on disease in metaphysical context is the first ge...
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| Place / Publishing House: | University Park, PA : : Penn State University Press, , [2021] ©2001 |
| Year of Publication: | 2021 |
| Language: | English |
| Series: | Sixteenth Century Essays & Studies ;
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| Physical Description: | 1 online resource (224 p.) |
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Table of Contents:
- Frontmatter
- Contents
- Illustrations
- Preface
- Introduction
- Chapter 1. Medical Aspects of Bubonic Plague and Yersinia pestis Infections
- Chapter 2. Literary Sources of Plague Iconography
- Chapter 3. Visual Sources of Plague Iconography
- Chapter 4. The Black Death and Its Immediate Aftermath (1347-1500)
- Chapter 5. The Sixteenth-Century Renaissance (1500-1600)
- Chapter 6. The Tridentine World: Plague Paintings as Implementations of Catholic Reforms (1600-1775)
- Chapter 7. Revival of Plague Themes and Modern Reverberations (1776-1990s)
- Chapter 8. Plague Imagery, Past and Future
- Appendix. Plague Texts That Influenced Visual Art
- Notes
- Bibliography
- Index
- Scripture References