Hope and Healing: Painting in Italy in a Time of Plague, 1500-1800

Hope and Healing: Painting in Italy in a Time of Plague, 1500-1800

by Gauvin Alexander Bailey (Editor), Pamela M. Jones (Editor), Franco Mormando  (Editor), Thomas W. Worcester (Editor)

The bubonic plague ravaged early modern Europe from the mid-fourteenth to the early eighteenth centuries, striking so often and in so many localities that people constantly were on guard against the scourge. Hope and Healing explores the response of the visual arts to this omnipresent aura of death, decay, and tragedy in the early modern European experience, focusing on Italy between the sixteenth and eighteenth centuries.

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