In the mid-1300s, approximately one quarter of the world’s population succumbed to the Black Death; 30-60% of Europe’s population lost their lives in a painful mess of black buboes and vomited blood.1 This devastation was captured in manuscripts, paintings and murals that survive to this day. Check out the Black Death through the eyes of the Medieval mind…
Plague Doctor
1512 woodcut of a doctor and his assistants tending to a plague patient
The Triumph of Death, Pieter Bruegel the Elder
Burying Plague Victims of Tournai
Danse Macabre Italian fresco
Danse Macabre Italian fresco
Triumph of Death Wall Painting, ca. 1448, Palazzo Abatellis
Triumph of Death Wall Painting, ca. 1448, Palazzo Abatellis (detail)
Stiny Codex 14th C Czechoslovakia
