Fri 12/11 @ 1-2:30PM
Artists from the past didn’t just depict religious scenes and bucolic landscapes. The events of their time often found their way into their painting, drawings and prints — including deadly epidemics of diseases such as bubonic plague and cholera.
Cleveland Museum of Art docent Dr. Linda M. Sandhaus will take a look at some such works in the museum’s collection and talk about the connections those works have with diseases that impacted the art’s era such as the 1850 woodcut pictured above by German Alfred Rethel, which referred to an 1832 cholera epidemic in Paris. Sandhaus has expertise in disease as well as art: she’s a member of the Department of Pathology at University Hospitals and was an Associate Professor of Pathology at CWRU School of Medicine prior to her 2017 retirement.
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