“Painting in Florence and Siena After the Black Death: The Arts, Religion and Society in the Mid-Fourteenth Century” takes on Italian art in the aftermath of the bubonic plague. The calamity ...

Emily Kasriel explores the art of plague from the Black Death to current times. As their communities grappled with an invisible enemy, artists have often tried to make sense of the random ...

argued that the first significant painting made in Florence in the wake of the Black Death was Andrea Orcagna's Strozzi Altarpiece, in Santa Maria Novella, (1354-57). If the figures of Christ ...

And then came the final blow - in 1348, a sailor arrived in Weymouth, unwittingly bringing with him the Black Death ... in medieval art - the danse macabre, or Dance of Death.

Indeed, historians have argued that the Black Death paved the way for a new wave of opportunity, creativity, and wealth from which would flourish the art, culture, and ideas of the Renaissance ...

In fact, there are very few images of the Black Death from the time of the scourge ... in libraries and art resource databases, including The British Library and Getty Images, that distribute ...

And beyond these examples, the urge to point to increased wages or Renaissance art as the silver lining of the Black Death collapses time. The plague reached Europe in 1347. Even if those who were ...

It captures the horror of the bubonic plague, which devastated Italy during the Black Death and then repeatedly returned over the next 300 years.Credit...National Gallery of Art When the Black ...