{"id":2871,"date":"2020-04-06T17:53:45","date_gmt":"2020-04-06T21:53:45","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blogs.shu.edu\/lawrencefrizzell\/?p=2871"},"modified":"2020-04-08T18:36:22","modified_gmt":"2020-04-08T22:36:22","slug":"the-plague-and-art","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blogs.shu.edu\/lawrencefrizzell\/the-plague-and-art\/","title":{"rendered":"The Plague and Art"},"content":{"rendered":"<div id=\"attachment_2877\" style=\"width: 287px\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\"><a href=\"https:\/\/upload.wikimedia.org\/wikipedia\/commons\/7\/71\/Anthony_van_Dyck_-_Saint_Rosalie_Interceding_for_the_Plague-stricken_of_Palermo.jpg\" data-rel=\"lightbox-image-0\" data-rl_title=\"\" data-rl_caption=\"\" title=\"\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-2877\" class=\"wp-image-2877\" src=\"https:\/\/blogs.shu.edu\/lawrencefrizzell\/files\/2020\/04\/Anthony_van_Dyck_-_Saint_Rosalie_Interceding_for_the_Plague-stricken_of_Palermo-246x300.png\" alt=\"\" width=\"277\" height=\"335\" \/><\/a><p id=\"caption-attachment-2877\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Saint Rosalie Interceding for the Plague-stricken of Palermo by Anthony van Dyck \/ Public domain<\/p><\/div>\n<p><em>The Oxford Dictionary of Christian Art<\/em> (Oxford University Press, 1996) by Peter and Linda Murray has an entry, \u201cPlague Saints,\u201d of whom there are 19. They mention Saints Roch (Rocco), Sebastian, Cosmas and Damian, Anthony Abbot and Charles Borromeo.<\/p>\n<p>In 1624, Anthony van Dyck painted St. Rosalia while he was quarantined in Palermo, Sicily. One of these paintings is in the Metropolitan Museum in New York, and Jason Farago recently published this essay about it in <em>The<\/em> <em>New York Times <\/em>on March 26, 2020: <a href=\"https:\/\/www.nytimes.com\/2020\/03\/26\/arts\/design\/van-dyck-metropolitan-museum-virus.html\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">&#8220;The Saint Who Stopped an Epidemic Is on Lockdown at the Met.&#8221;<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The Oxford Dictionary of Christian Art (Oxford University Press, 1996) by Peter and Linda Murray has an entry, \u201cPlague Saints,\u201d of whom there are 19. They mention Saints Roch (Rocco), Sebastian, Cosmas and Damian, Anthony Abbot and Charles Borromeo. In &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/blogs.shu.edu\/lawrencefrizzell\/the-plague-and-art\/\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2011,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[5],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-2871","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-art"],"aioseo_notices":[],"post_mailing_queue_ids":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.shu.edu\/lawrencefrizzell\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2871","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.shu.edu\/lawrencefrizzell\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.shu.edu\/lawrencefrizzell\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.shu.edu\/lawrencefrizzell\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2011"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.shu.edu\/lawrencefrizzell\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2871"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.shu.edu\/lawrencefrizzell\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2871\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2912,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.shu.edu\/lawrencefrizzell\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2871\/revisions\/2912"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.shu.edu\/lawrencefrizzell\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2871"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.shu.edu\/lawrencefrizzell\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2871"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.shu.edu\/lawrencefrizzell\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2871"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}