Black Death

Je viens de poster un message à propos de Theodor Kittelsen est ses illustrations sur la peste noire (Black Death).

D'autres artistes ont été inspirés par le sujet :


"The Dance of Death" by Hans Holbein the Younger

Before the Black Death, music was happy and frequently heard. During the Black Death music was played very grimly or never played at all. The only exceptions were people who decided that since they were going to die anyway, they might as well spend the rest of their life in happiness. The somber change in art and music demonstrated the grim reality of the world around them.




A nineteenth-century painting depicts the agony of plague victims. The Black Death of the 1340s, the worst outbreak of plague in history, decimated Europe's population.


Marcello's Drawing of the Black Death in Italy 1348 AD


Black Death as illustrated in the Toggenburg Bible (1411)


1347 Black Death spreads - Death riding on a horse, Peter Visscher (c) Dorling Kindersley


1349 burning of Jews-European chronicle on Black Death