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The bubonic plague ravaged early modern Europe from the mid-fourteenth to the early eighteenth centuries, striking so often and in so many localities that people constantly were on guard against the scourge. Hope and Healing explores the response of the visual arts to this omnipresent aura of death, decay, and tragedy in the early modern European experience, focusing on Italy between the sixteenth and eighteenth centuries.
An esteemed group of contributors draws on a wide range of materials, including diaries, medical and devotional treatises, poetry, sermons, letters, and chapbooks to illuminate the various aesthetic, social, and religious concerns that preoccupied artists, patrons, and the general populace. This vibrant and fascinating volume ultimately offers a fresh and intriguing perspective on the forces and concerns that shaped early modern Italian art.
|Introduction : response to the plague in early modern Italy : what the primary sources, printed and painted, reveal||1|
|Plague art in early modern Rome : divine directives and temporal remedies||45|
|San Carlo Borromeo and plague imagery in Milan and Rome||65|
|Art and plague at Naples||97|
|Anthony van Dyck, the cult of Saint Rosalie, and the 1624 Plague in Palermo||118|
|Combating the plague : devotional paintings, architectural programs, and votive processions in early modern Venice||137|
|Saint Roch vs. Plague, famine, and fear||153|
|Catalogue of the exhibition||177|