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A Peste Negra / Black Death

A Peste Negra e o seu impacto na mentalidade medieval nos séculos XIV e XV. The plague and its impact during XIVth and XVth century.

Curated by @anaportela

13 items

[Depublished item]
Wellcome Collection
C. Lycosthenes, 1340 comet in sky and plague at Florence

Comet seen in the sky: 1340 and plague at Florence in which 16,000 people died

Wellcome Collection
Altarpiece showing Christ throwing down arrows of plague.

Altarpiece: Christ throwing down arrows (of plague), transfixing victims lying on the ground, saints interceding; anon. for the Carmelites of Gottingen

[Depublished item]
Swedish History Museum
Death Playing Chess

The German-born painter Albrekht Ymmenhusen, known as Albertus Pictor, cuts a distinct figure in Swedish medieval art by a unique combination of both quality and quantity. He is the most active workshop leader in the field of Swedish mural painting of the…

National Library of France
Healthy mirror. Historical macabre dance The Three Dead and the Three Dead. Women’s dance …

[Danse macabre (français moyen). 1486]; Comprend : Les dis des trois mors et trois vifs ; Le débat du corps et de l'âme ; La complainte de l'âme dampnée

Royal Institute for Cultural Heritage
Danse macabre in "Liber Chronicarum opus de temporibus mundi"
Institute of Material Culture of the Middle Ages and the Early Modern Period
Men killed by the plague

Wandmalerei-Zyklus/sakral

Bodleian Libraries, University of Oxford
Book of Hours. Use of Paris.

Whole folio. Pope St. Gregory's Procession of Litanies, instituted as a protection against plague.

German Documentation Center for Art History - Marburg Picture Index
Atrechtscher Wandteppich, Detail Tafel 14: Die Pest
[Depublished item]
National Library of France
Tractatus of curatione pestiferorum apostematum ([Reprod.])

Collection : Italian books before 1601 ; 416.169

Wellcome Collection
The plague of Florence in 1348, as described in Boccaccio's Decameron. Etching by L. Sabat…

Lettering: La peste di Firenze dal Boccaccio descritta. A.S.E. il Sigr. Marchese Pier Roberto Capponi. Luigi Sabatelli DDD. Luigi Sabatelli invento, disegnò, & inc.; Boccaccio, Giovanni, 1313-1375.