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Cover: St. Sebastian Intercedes during the Plague, Josse Lieferinxe, 149799. The Walters Art Gallery, Baltimore.
Illustration credits and permissions:
Art Resource, New York: Figs. 1.12, 4.1, 4.5, 5.1, 5.2, 5.4, 6.9, 7.1, 7.3.
Baroque and Rococo Pictorial Imagery, Dover Publications, New York: 1971: Fig. 3.6.
Der Bayerischen Staatsgemldesammlungen: Fig. 6.2.
Bayerisches National Museum: Fig. 1.5.
Beni Artistici e Storici di Napoli: Fig. 1.7.
Gemaldegalerie der Akademie der bildenden Knste in Wien: Figs. 4.6, 6.4.
Glasgow University Library, University of Glasgow: Fig. 7.4.
Guildhall Art Gallery, London: Fig. 7.5.
Graphische Sammlung Albertina, Wien: Figs. 3.1, 3.3, 3.4, 3.5, 3.7, 6.3, 6.5.
Hamburger Kunsthalle: Fig. 6.1.
Kunsthistorisches Museum, Wien: Figs. 1.11, 6.7.
Library of the College of Physicians of Philadelphia: Figs. 1.8, 4.7.
Thomas Butler, M.D., TTUHSC Dept. of Internal Medicine: Figs. 1.4, 1.6.
The Walters Art Gallery, Baltimore: Cover, Figs. 1.2, 4.2.
Library of Congress Cataloging-in-Publication Data
Boeckl, Christine M., 1933
Images of plague and pestilence : iconography and iconology / Christine M. Boeckl.
p. cm. (Sixteenth century essays & studies ; 53) Includes bibliographical references and index.
ISBN 0-943549-72-8 (alk. paper) ISBN 0-943549-85-X (pbk. : alk. paper) ISBN 978-1-935503-45-3 (e-book)
1. Plague in art. 2. Plague in literature. I. Title. II. Series
N8243.S5 B63 2000
704.9496169232dc21
00-041760
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Contents
Illustrations
Fig. 1.1. | Photograph of a cervical bubo |
Fig. 1.2. | Plague Victim. Detail of St. Sebastian Intercedes during the Plague, Josse Lieferinxe, 149799 |
Fig. 1.3. | Detail of Plague Scene, unknown artist, before c. 1518 |
Fig. 1.4. | Photograph of axillary bubo |
Fig. 1.5. | Detail of St. Roch Cured by an Angel, unknown artist, c. 1490 |
Fig. 1.6. | Photograph of a femoral bubo |
Fig. 1.7. | St. Gennaro Frees Naples from the Plague, Luca Giordano, 1662 |
Fig. 1.8. | Plague Victims, woodcut, from Francesco Petrarca, Artzney Beyde Gluck (Augsburg, 1532) |
Fig. 1.9. | Doctors Visit to a Plague Victim, woodcut, 1512 |
Fig. 1.10. | Plague Doctor in Rome, engraving, P. Frst, 1656 |
Fig. 1.11. | Carnival in Rome, Lingelbach, c. 1656 |
Fig. 1.12. | Piazza Mercatello during the Plague of 1656, Micco Spadaro, 1660s |
Fig. 3.1. | The Morbetto, engraving, Marcantonio Raimondi after Raphael, 1520s |
Fig. 3.2. | Plague at Ashdod, engraving, S. Picart after Poussin, 1630s? |
Fig. 3.3. | St. Charles Administers the Viaticum to a Plague Victim engraving, A. Boss after P. Mignard, 1670 |
Fig. 3.4. | St. Sebastian, woodcut, 1437 |
Fig. 3.5 | Plague of Epirus, engraving, Audran after Pierre Mignard, 1670s |
Fig. 3.6 | Peste/Pestilentia, engraving, Cesare Ripa, 1750s |
Fig. 3.7 | St. Roch, engraving, Paul Pontius after P. P. Rubens, c. 1623 |
Fig. 4.1 | Triumph of Death, Buonamico Buffalmacco? c. 1330s |
Fig. 4.2 | St. Sebastian Intercedes during the Plague, Josse Lieferinxe, 149799 |
Fig. 4.3 | Flagellants, Limbourg Brothers, 1412 |
Fig. 4.4 | Vision of St. Michael, Limbourg Brothers, 1412 |
Fig. 4.5 | St. Gregorys Procession, Limbourg Brothers, 141316 finished by Jean Colombe, 1485 |
Fig. 4.6 | St. Nicholas Saving Florence, Giovanni di Paolo, 1456 |
Fig. 4.7 | Christ the Judge, woodcut, title page of Philipp Culmacher, Regimen wider die Pest, before 1500 |
Fig. 5.1 | Madonna di Foligno, Raphael, c. 1513 |
Fig. 5.2 | Gozzi Altarpiece, Titian, 1520 |
Fig. 5.3 | Virgin and Child Enthroned with Saints, Giorgio Vasari, 1536 |
Fig. 5.4 | St. Roch Ministering to the Plague Victims, Tintoretto, 1549 |
Fig. 6.1 | Lutheran Eucharistic Feast, Otto Wagenfeldt, c. 1650 |
Fig. 6.2 | St. Charles Administers Extreme Unction, Benedetto Luti, 1713 |
Fig. 6.3 | St. Charles Leads Procession of the Holy Nail, drawing, Pietro da Cortona, 1667 |
Fig. 6.4 | Blessed Bernard Tolomei Comforting Victims of the Plague, follower of Giuseppe Maria Crespi, eighteenth century |
Fig. 6.5 | Death and the Priest, woodcut, Hans Holbein, before 1538 |
Fig. 6.6 | St. Charles Administers the Viaticum to a Plague Victim, Josef Zirckler, 1785 |
Fig. 6.7 | Detail of Allegory of the Jesuit Order, unknown artist, 1617 |
Fig. 6.8 | The Miracles of St. Francis Xavier, P. P. Rubens, 1617 |
Fig. 6.9 | Pallione del Voto, Guido Reni, 1630 |
Fig. 7.1 | Napoleon in the Pesthouse of Jaffa, Antoine-Jean Gros, 1804 |
Fig. 7.2 |
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