Illustrations
Introduction
Medical Aspects of Bubonic Plague and Yersinia pestis Infections
Literary Sources of Plague Iconography
Visual Sources of Plague Iconography
The Black Death and Its Immediate Aftermath (1347–1500)
The Sixteenth-Century Renaissance (1500–1600)
The Tridentine World: Plague Paintings as Implementations of Catholic Reforms
Revival of Plague Themes and Modern Reverberations
Plague Imagery, Past and Future
Appendix: Plague Texts That Influenced Visual Art
Notes
Bibliography
Index
Scripture References
Christine M Boeckl
“Images of Plague and Pestilence is Boeckl’s personal statement,
written in scholarly terms, of her experience of individual and
communal heroism in the face of disaster. As such, it is a book
worth reading for its academic and humanistic value.”—CAA
Reviews
“Crossing the history of art with the history of medicine, Boeckl
overviews various sources of plague iconography, interprets the
meanings of plague images in a few significant paintings dating
from the 14th to the 20th century, and highlights the most
influential innovative artistic works that originated during the
Renaissance and the Catholic Reformation.”—Book News
“Christine M. Boeckl developed great expertise in the fascinating
subject of plague imagery and made an important scholarly
contribution to this field of study.”—Arthur K. Wheelock,
Jr.,National Gallery of Art
“I know of no scholar who has done more to elucidate the meaning
and the significance underlying plague imagery. Such paintings are
not relegated to the periphery of the European tradition, having
for several centuries provided subject matter for major
commissions. Yet today the context in which these images were
created has been largely lost. Dr. Boeckl has made a remarkable
contribution in helping to recover that missing information and has
helped us to see such old masters as Poussin and Rubens with new
eyes.”—William Pressly, University of Maryland
“Christine M. Boeckl sets rigorous parameters and targets the
essence of a subject both abundant and yet neglected.”—Jacqueline
Brossollet, Pasteur Institute, Paris
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