Plagues in Art

Peter Bruegel (the elder) "Triumph of Death" (Black Plague) 

 (Flemish artist, 1562, oil on panel, in Museo del Prado, Madrid.  

  For larger painting, click here

 

Mass Burial, Plague, Belgium 1349.  Unknown artist.

Bubonic Plague Study by Ely Janis, with paintings (not identified).  Above, Conditions of life in Cities with Plague 

Also from Ely Janis site ; artist not identified.

"Black Plague" From Carlo Cipolla's Drawing in his Faith, Reason and the Plague in
Seventeenth Century Tuscany, (Ithaca: Cornell U. Press, 1977). 

 
 

Edvard Munch "DEATH IN THE SICKROOM, 1893" {Sister Sophia died of TB}

Detail from Francesco Traini's "Triumph of Death" (mid 14th century)

Alice Neel, "TB Harlam" 1940

Antoine Jean Gros, "Pest House at Jaffa, 1804.  

Napoleon Visits Soldiers Dying of Plague 

 

Charles Thrale, "Burning the Cholera Dead," POW camp in Thailand, 1940's.  See Charles Thrale

 

 

 

 Arnold  Bocklin, "The Plague"

1898

 

 

AIDS murals in Durban Conference, 2000

AIDS murals in Durban Conference

"Aids - Baby - Africa," 2000
PENELOPE SIOPIS
South Africa
cibachrome photograph
100cm x 80cm

See ArtWorks for AIDS exhibit for more

AIDS murals in Durban Conference