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Article in New York Times Style Magazine. "What Can We Learn From the Art of Pandemics Past?" Subtitled "From the playground game ring-around-the-rosy to the short stories of Edgar Allan Poe, the scars of illnesses throughout history are still visible today."

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Short article introducing a new course for medical students at The University of Virginia "How Art Shaped Our Understanding of Plagues"

Short Vanity Fair article "The Art of Making Art About a Plague." Explores the way coronavirus may inspire creative efforts.

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Short article from Redbrick Cultures discusses art and pandemics through the lens of three works of art:: Giovanni Boccaccio’s The Decameron (1353); Edgar Allan Poe’s The Masque of the Red Death (1842); and Edvard Munch's Self Portrait after the Spanish Flu’ (1919)

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Article from mymodernmet.com "Memento Mori: Life and Death in Western Art from Skulls to Still Life." Features an assortment of interesting art.

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Atlas Obscura's "A Brief History of the "Danse Macabre"delves into the subject of skeletons in art from 1424 to Disney.