Proto Black plague
The "Black Death"brought horror to a defenseless Europe. This facinating and unusual painting uses the holocaust as it's theme showing that the plague was everywhere and it struck all social classes. Both of the Lorenzettis, artists of the time, were among the scores of victims of the wave of death.

Triumph of Death

Who- Fransisco Traini What- Fresco Painting When-1325-1350
Where-Pisa
Why-The painting depicts the bubonic plague that wiped out half of the population of europe.
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