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Covid-19 & Its Predecessors: Pandemics, Plagues, Pestilence, & Peste in Art

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Webpages & Media

20 of the worst epidemics and pandemics in history
Ancient Medicine: The Classical Roots of the Medical Humanities: Unit 3: Plagues Brooklyn College Library
Art & Death in the Middle Ages, Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York
Before coronavirus, the plague shaped art ALİ TÜFEKÇİ, Sabah, Apr 29, 2020 3:10 pm GMT+3
Florence Fresco, c. 1445, in Palermo by an anonymous painter, depicting 'The Triumph of Death,' as a skeleton rides a skeletal horse and picks off his victims. | Werner Forman/Universal Images Group/Getty Images
How Art Reacts in the Face of a Pandemic
Iconic Plague Images Are Often Not What They Seem Rae Ellen Bichell, NPR, August 18, 2017, 12:14 PM ET
National Museum of China exhibition commemorates country's fight against Covid-19
Pandemics - History.com
Plague Art, to Rivet, Horrify, or Heal Brian T. Allen, National Review, April 25, 2020 6:30 AM
Plague Doctor Costumes - Public Domain Review
Plague Pictures or Art in Times of Pestilence Claudia Rousseau, Ph.D. , EASTCITYART, on April 20, 2020
Plagues of Egypt (1440 BCE?) Exodus 7-11.
What plague art tells us about today Emily Kasriel, BBC Culture, 18th May 2020

Featured Resource: Illness, Plagues, and Pandemics in Art (Smarthistory: The Center for Public Art History)

Illness, Plagues, and Pandemics in Art (Smarthistory: The Center for Public Art History) An overview of global artistic responses to epidemics and pandemics. 13th century to today. Art throughout the world often encoded the impact of diseases on people.

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