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Bases de dades: Sciència.cat
Barker, Sheila, "Painting the Plague, 1250–1630", dins: Lynteris, Christos (ed.), Plague Image and Imagination from Medieval to Modern Times, Cham, Palgrave Macmillan (Medicine and Biomedical Sciences in Modern History), 2021, pp. 37-67.
- Resum
- Visual representations of plague offer rich insights into pre-modern conceptions of epidemic disease, including its presumed causes, consequences, and remedies, in the collective imaginary. This chapter examines a few key artworks made before and during the long extent of Europe's second pandemic (roughly 1347–1772), pinpointing profound changes that occurred in those conceptions, as well as shifts in the kinds of responses that societies believed to be appropriate to an outbreak. As we shall see, artists experimented with visual depictions of plague as a means of both reshaping how epidemic disease was imagined and conditioning the response to it, on a collective scale and within an individual psyche. Although there are manifold points of contrast and comparison among the images under discussion, this chapter prioritizes three pivot points that determined nearly all the changes in the representation of plague across four centuries: the ontological conception of the plague, the attitudes towards its victims, and the role of art during epidemics.
- Matèries
- Història de l'art
Medicina - Pesta i altres malalties
- URL
- https://link.springer.com/chapter/10.1007/978-3-030 ...
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