As the Black Death swept across Europe, fear gave rise to desperation—and some believed salvation came through pain. Meet the ...

Gothic art might have inspired modern artists to ... that contain a mix of darkness and humor. Folktales about the black death, a bubonic plague pandemic that spread through Europe in the 14th ...

This is because they have a biological resistance to the plague that, unfortunately, other animals don’t. Before the Black Death fell upon Europe, arts such as painting, music, and literature were ...

As a restorer who specialized in late medieval and early Renaissance paintings from Italy, he was in intimate touch with the paintings of long-dead masters. By Adam Nossiter Marco Grassi ...

Modern life makes us tired, right? But research from societies in Africa and South America suggests people in the ancient ...

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Linda Hall has a new exhibition, Surface Tension, currently up at the Thomasville Center for the Arts, which includes her ...

Human plague cases drop in U.S. After a spike of human cases of the plague in 2015, a year the disease inflicted 16 people across portions of the western United States, the number of occurrences ...

Outperforming even the most voracious and ruthless human invaders, the Black Death decimated English towns of all sizes in the mid-fourteenth century, killing more than half of the population in place ...

A centuries-old painting that graced the walls of London’s Tate Gallery for more than three decades will soon be returned to the descendants of a Belgian art collector who was persecuted by the ...

Robert Lee Hotz covered new research and its impact on society for The Wall Street Journal.