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Fed by the Shadow of Death

Renaissance painters were masters of light, life, death and shadow
Posted on May 24, 2015 by Greer Barker (Blog Writer, SevenPonds)

The cultural bloom of the Italian – and wider European – Renaissance was fed by the shadow of death. The bubonic plague was carried by fleas traveling on rodents, who then hitched rides along the expanding trade routes in the … Continue reading →

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