To analyze art made in the wake of a devastating plague, Meiss brought politics ... revolution in painting for the second half of the 14th century. But it never came. Two paintings in the ...

The Cloisters Collection, 1925, Metropolitan Museum of Art // Public Domain One of ... they used was retrospectively applied to the 14th-century plague in Europe. The Black Death wasn’t all ...

Left untreated, it’s almost always fatal. Millions of people suffered this unfortunate fate in the 14th century. The Black Death’s death toll is still fiercely debated, but conservative ...

A new exhibition at New York City’s Metropolitan Museum of Art ... scene a century later would look so clarifyingly bold.” The show ends in 1350, around the time that the Black Death was ...

Starring Zosia Mamet, Tony Hale and more, the show is an anachronistic romp set in 1348 amid the bubonic plague ... “The Decameron” is a 14th-century short story collection framed as stories ...

It eventually led to the second plague pandemic–the Black Death in the 14th century. The Black Death is still the deadliest pandemic in recorded human history, killing 30 to 50 percent of the ...

A new study published in Science posits an evolutionary change in the human immune system since the infamous 14th-century Black Plague. A graduate student named Jennifer Klunk, who was helping to ...

The infamous Black Death pandemic of the 14th century ravaged Europe, claiming millions of lives. Originating in Asia, it spread via fleas carried by rats, thriving in unsanitary urban environments.

A railway construction project in central London has turned up the skeletons of 13 victims of the Black Death. The find is ... people over the course of the 14th century. Victims sported blackened ...

The plague — which in the mid-14th century was also known as the Black Death — devastated swaths of Europe, killing millions in under a decade. One of the puzzles surrounding this ancient ...

To analyze art made in the wake of a devastating plague, Meiss brought politics ... revolution in painting for the second half of the 14th century. But it never came. Two paintings in the ...