A painting revolution was ready to take off in the 14th century, but then the plague hit Italy. What lessons does that hold about our own art future? Plague in Europe changed art history.

Fourteenth-century Venice, with a population of 100,000, was not only one of Europe’s largest cities, but also a wealthy maritime trading hub and a cultural center where the aesthetics of ...

An artist from Siena could have travelled to Africa in the 14th century to create triptych, which is in a remote monastery in northern Ethiopia. ... although in European art there are often fewer.

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Paolo Veneziano, The Crucifixion, about 1340-1345 National Gallery of Art, Washington, Samuel H. Kress Collection, 1939.1.143 In the mid-14th century, just before the Black Death besieged Venice ...

The Black Death was an epidemic of bubonic plague that devastated Europe in the mid-14th century, ... (a term typically associated with art but with a much wider meaning among historians).