Abstract
The resulting art from the period of the Black Death and the time following it is deeply indicative of the general population’s emotions at the time as they faced fear and sickness. Much of the art produced in response to the plague is religious in nature, yet the specifics of the saints and scenes portrayed varies vastly through time and geographic locations. Though the depiction of Saints Roch and Sebastian were common, local saints also appeared in several works. In this essay, I perform a closer inspection of four separate paintings, and argue that the inclusion of common and local saints were used to create a cumulative effect of protection for a patron or city.
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