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The Black Death: The World's Most Devastating Plague: Season 1

1x18 Artistic Responses to the Black Death

  • 2016-10-31T00:00:00Z on The Great Courses
  • 31m
Discover how artists confronted the plague through new and innovative forms of expression. Among these, study the creation of transi tombs with graphic sculptural effigies of the dead, as well as the remarkable paintings, murals, and woodcuts of the memento mori tradition, which sought to remind viewers of their mortality.
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