how artists viewed epidemic

Title: Humana Fragilitas (Human Frailty)
Photo: DEA/A. DAGLI ORTI Getty Images DeAgostini
Artist: Salvator Rosa, c. 1657

The angel of death is manipulating the boy’s hand to write in Latin Conceptio Culpa, Nasci Pena, Labor Vita, Necesse Mori.

Conception is guilt, Birth is pain, Life is toil, Death a necessity.

See the dramatic art of Catholics Titian and Caravaggio.

​​https://www.theguardian.com/artanddesign/2020/mar/17/plague-visionaries-how-rembrandt-titian-and-caravaggio-tackled-pestilence