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‘There came a deadly pestilence’: Art in Tuscany Before and After the Black Death

Dr. C. Griffith Mann, Guest Lecturer

This talk will discuss how The Book of Marvels came to be and why it is such a valuable record of the global past.

Image: Master of the Codex of Saint George. Italian, active Florence, ca. 1315–35. The Lamentation, ca. 1330–35 Tempera on wood, gold ground, 18 × 11 3/4 inches. The Cloisters Collection, 1961, 61.200.2