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Plague and pestilence in literature and art

LIST OF PLATES

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S. Sebastian. By Sodoma Frontispiece

Plate I:

Apollo with Bow and Mouse. Bronze coin of

Alexandria Troas. c. 250 b.c. × 2.

Asclepius with Serpent. Bronze coin of Pergamon.

Time of Antoninus Pius. × 2.

Serpent and Galley. Medallion. Time of Antoninus Pius.

Pest-Thaler, struck at Wittenberg, a.d. 1528.

Christ on the Cross.

The Brazen Serpent To face p. 4

Plate II. Plague of Ashdod. By N. Poussin To face p. 18

Plate III. Plague of David. By P. Mignard To face p. 19

Plate IV. Gregory and the Angel To face p. 93

Plate V. Fresco in S. Pietro in Vincoli, Rome To face p. 95

Plate VI. La Peste à Rome. By Delaunay To face p. 96

Plate VII. Sebastian as Protector against Pestilence.

By Benozzo Gozzoli To face p. 99

Plate VIII. Sodoma’s Sebastian Plague Banner (Reverse).

SS. Roch and Sigismund, and

Brethren of Compagnia di S. Sebastiano To face p. 100

Plate IX. SS. Mark, Sebastian, Roch, Cosmas, and Damian. By Titian To face p. 102

Plate X. S. Roch. By Ambrogio Borgognone To face p. 108

Plate XI. S. Roch tended by an Angel. By Niklaus Manuel.

Intercessory plague picture To face p. 109

Plate XII. Madonna and Child, S. Anna and Saints.

By G. Francesco Caroto To face p. 110

Plate XIII. Dance of Death, at Basle To face p. 135

Plate XIV. Madonna della Misericordia. By Bonfigli To face p. 138

Plate XV. Madonna del Soccorso. By Sinibaldo Ibi To face p. 138

Plate XVI. Plague Banner. Christ and Saints. By Bonfigli To face p. 139

Plate XVII. Pest-Blätter:

1. The Almighty with SS. Sebastian and Roch.

2. The Almighty, Madonna and Suppliants.

The Virgin and Child, S. Anna and Suppliants To face p. 142

Plate XVIII. The Impruneta Virgin To face p. 146

Plate XIX. S. Tecla liberates Este from Plague.

By Giovanni Battista Tiepolo To face p. 147

Plate XX. Plague. A drawing by Raphael To face p. 148

Plate XXI. Procession to S. Maria della Salute, Venice.

From a seventeenth century engraving To face p. 172

Plate XXII. Carlo Borromeo. By Annibale Carracci To face p. 173

Plate XXIII. Borromeo leading a Plague Procession.

By Pietro da Cortona To face p. 174

Plate XXIV. Borromeo interceding for the Plague-stricken.

By P. Puget. A marble bas-relief To face p. 175

Plate XXV. Torture and Execution of the Anointers To face p. 179

Plate XXVI. Plague of Naples, 1656. By Micco Spadara To face p. 184

Plate XXVII. Plague Scenes in Rome, 1656. From an old engraving To face p. 186

Plate XXVIII:

1. Dress of a Marseilles Doctor, 1720.

2. German Caricature of the same To face p. 200

Plate XXIX. Peste de Marseille. By François Gérard To face p. 206

Plate XXX. La Peste dans la Ville de Marseille en 1720. By J. F. de Troy To face p. 207

Plate XXXI. Les Pestiférés de Jaffa. By Baron Gros To face p. 208

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