How have artists portrayed epidemics through history – and what can the art tell us about then and now? Emily Kasriel explores the art of plague from the Black Death to current times.

Countless artists died during the Black Death, casualties among the millions who succumbed — 25 ... Giotto-inspired transformation underway in traditional medieval art prior to the plague withered.

The Black Death—the world's second bubonic plague pandemic—decimated the populations of Asia, the Middle East, and Europe in the 14th century. But there was a silver lining.

Not just Plague with a capital P—bubonic plague, caused by the Yersinia pestis bacterium, the Black Death of 14th-century Europe that killed anywhere between 25 million and 200 million people—but all ...

The Black Death ravaged Europe between 1347 and 1353, killing millions. Plague outbreaks in Europe then continued until the 19th century. ... Heritage Images/Hulton Fine Art Collection/Getty Images.

The Black Death, the world’s most devastating plague outbreak, killed half of medieval Europe’s population in the space of seven years, shifting the course of human history. It was more than ...

The plague — which in the mid-14th century was also known as the Black Death — devastated swaths of Europe, killing millions in under a decade. One of the puzzles surrounding this ancient ...

The plague sounds like something out of a history book. But the disease—nicknamed the “Black Death” or “Great Pestilence”—that killed more than 25 million people, about a third of ...

The Black Death, the world’s most devastating plague outbreak, killed half of medieval Europe’s population in the space of seven years in the 14th century, shifting the course of human history.