Plague (painting)
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title:
Plague (painting)
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Plague is an 1898 painting in tempera by the Swiss symbolist artist Arnold Böcklin, held in the Kunstmuseum Basel. It exemplifies the artist's obsession with nightmares of war, pestilence and death. The painting shows Death riding on a bat-like winged creature who travels through a street in a medieval European town. Plague is rendered mostly using shades of pale green, a colour often associated with decomposition. The other predominant tones are black and dull browns; for example, in the clothe
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description:
Painting by Arnold Böcklin
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https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Plague_(painting)
date created:
2009-05-28T20:53:56Z
date modified:
2024-08-30T01:33:25Z
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