Plague in Rome 1869
by Jules Elie Delaunay
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Plague in Rome 1869
Artist
Jules Elie Delaunay
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Plague in Rome 1869, Jules Elie Delaunay (1828-1891) The first preparatory drawings for this painting date from 1857 and were inspired by the artist's visit to the Roman Church of San Pietro in Vicoli, where a fresco from 1476 depicted a plague epidemic. At the time when Delaunay was painting his picture, the disease was no longer the scourge it had been for so long and he refers to it through a literary transposition: a passage from Jacobus de Voragine's Golden Legend telling the story of Saint Sebastian, which reads: "And then there appeared a good angel, who commanded a bad angel, armed with a pike, to strike the houses and each house had as many dead as the number of blows on the door".
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