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St. Michael Heals a Sick Woman, 17th c. Ethiopia

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St. Michael Heals a Sick Woman, 17th c. Ethiopia

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This image appears in a manuscript devoted to the activities and miraculous works of St. Michael the Archangel.  It was created during a blossoming of courtly arts in Gondar, Ethiopia.  Multiple, severe epidemics raged in Ethiopia throughout the seventeenth century. One named "Labalb"
affected Gondar in 1683. Does this image depict it?
Walters Art Museum
Gondar Homiliary | W.835

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17 c Ethiopian ms St. Michael healing the sick

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Saint Roch/Saint Rocco Displays His Bubo, 17th century

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Saint Roch/Saint Rocco Displays His Bubo, 17th century

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Depictions of Saint Roch (~1295-1397), the patron saint of plague sufferers, show him lifting his pilgrim's clothing to show a bubo sore on his upper thigh, a dog with a piece of bread in its mouth, and sometimes an angel tending the bubo. Roch is otherwise robust and healthy, giving devotees hope of recovery. The saint is said to have tended the sick, performing miraculous recoveries, until he fell ill and was expelled from the town. He was saved by the faithful dog from a nearby estate who brought him bread and licked his wounds. Some cities ordered the mass executions of dogs as a (misguided) plague measure; certainly the saint's companion was a rebuke from dog-lovers.
Painter of Hungary, Museum of Fine Arts, Budapest

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Curfew for the Navajo Reservation, Sign from Tuba City, Arizona, April 4, 2020

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Curfew for the Navajo Reservation, Sign from Tuba City, Arizona, April 4, 2020

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Indigenous American populations have experienced disproportionately high number of infection and deaths, yet the US government has not provided adequate testing and other crucial resources.  Michael Chow/The Republic

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St. Sebastian Sucks Your Plague Into His Body, c. 1497-99

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St. Sebastian Sucks Your Plague Into His Body, c. 1497-99

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For divine aid, pre-modern Europeans prayed to Saint Sebastian (CE 256-288), here floating centrally in the sky above the angel and demon battling for the souls of plague victims below. The story of the Christian martyr describes his miraculous survival of being pierced by so many arrows that he "resembled a hedgehog." Believers thought his wounds resembled plague boils, and imagined the arrows sucking up their sickness into him. Josse Lieferinxe, St. Sebastian Interceding for the Plague Stricken

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The 2019 Novel Coronavirus (2019-nCoV), portrayed in an illustration created at the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention. Alissa Eckert, MS; Dan Higgins, MAM

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Medical Workers Move a Patient, Italy, April 10, 2020

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Medical Workers Move a Patient, Italy, April 10, 2020

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Medical personnel transport a COVID-19 patient. Italy at this time was the world epicenter for the disease.

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Continental Plague Doctor Costume, c. 1656

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Continental Plague Doctor Costume, c. 1656

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Versions of the mid-seventeenth century "Doctor Beak" circulated as engravings in German-speaking lands. The mask held protective herbs, while glasses shielded wearers from eye contact with the sufferers that was considered dangerous.

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Mourners at a Funeral in New Orleans,  April 22, 2020

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Mourners at a Funeral in New Orleans,  April 22, 2020

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Friends and family of Larry Hammond are spaced apart during his funeral in New Orleans. Only 10 mourners were allowed to attend the service.

Gerald Herbert/AP

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Female healer tends to Aztecs suffering from smallpox pustules, 1576

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Female healer tends to Aztecs suffering from smallpox pustules, 1576

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This rare Mesoamerican-Spanish manuscript, the Florentine codex, was written during a plague in 1576 and reflects on an earlier plague from 1520. Some estimate that smallpox killed up to 90% of indigenous Americans.

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Major League Baseball Prepares, July 17, 2020

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Major League Baseball Prepares, July 17, 2020

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Tzu-Wei Lin wears a mask during a Boston Red Sox intrasquad game. A week later the regular season began, with no fans in the stands.

Billie Weiss/Boston Red Sox/Getty Images

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Should I stay or should I go? Look below for the answer. Dekker wrote this satirical pamphlet during an outbreak of the plague in London. The striking image is supposed to be both funny and scary.

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Open Air Worship,  Soweto, South Africa, June 7, 2020

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Open Air Worship,  Soweto, South Africa, June 7, 2020

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Congregants of the Inhlanhla Yokuphila Apostolic Church In Zion practice social distancing as they attend a service in an open field.

Siphiwe Sibeko/Reuters

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A mother helps her daughter Ange, 8, take classes on television at home in Man, Côte d'Ivoire. Photo: UNICEF/UNI320749

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The Effects of Plague on the Community, c. 1353

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The Effects of Plague on the Community, c. 1353

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The story moves from left to right. Men carry coffins to a burial ground. Others dig graves. Two people lower a coffin into the ground; the figure on the left of it may be a woman. In the medieval and early modern Europe, the care of the dead was women's responsibility, especially women healers. Pierart dou Tielt, The burial of the victims of the plague in Tournai,” Bibliothèque royale de Belgique, MS 13076-77

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Aid Teams Mobilize After Beruit Explosion, Lebanon, August 4, 2020

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Aid Teams Mobilize After Beruit Explosion, Lebanon, August 4, 2020

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Unattended chemicals exploded in the Beruit port. At least 180 people died, over 6,000 people were injured, 300,000 people were rendered homeless, over half the city was damaged. Treatment of the injured was compounded by COVID-19. Fadel Itani/NurPhoto via Getty Images

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Slave Trader's Statue Dumped Into Bristol Harbor, England, June 7, 2020

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Slave Trader's Statue Dumped Into Bristol Harbor, England, June 7, 2020

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Seventeenth century trader Edward Colton made his fortune by transporting and selling black and brown human beings. Black Lives Matter protesters tossed his statue into the harbor where he would land. A week later they replaced it with a statue of Jen Reid, a black protester photographed standing on the plinth. The city removed it within 24 hours.

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Elementary School in Thailand, July 3, 2020. 

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Elementary School in Thailand, July 3, 2020. 

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Students and their teacher wear hats to help them practice social distancing at the Ban Pa Muad School in Chiang Mai, Thailand.

Wichai Taprieu/AP

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Black Lives Matter Protesters, Washington D.C,  May 30, 2020

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Black Lives Matter Protesters, Washington D.C,  May 30, 2020

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Protesters rally on the west side of the US Capitol in response to racialized police brutality and the deaths of Brionna Taylor, George Floyd, and many others.   Bill Clark/CQ-Roll Call/Getty Images

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This illustration of how to make 'crab-roe water' (xiehuang shui) from the manuscript Shiwu bencao (Materia dietetica) by unknown Chinese artist(s) and writer(s) from the Ming period (1368-1644).

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'crab-roe water' (xiehuang shui) from Shiwu bencao (Materia dietetica)

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Virginia Bejar works at home in Madrid while holding her 6-month-old daughter, Olivia.

Miguel Pereira/Getty Images

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Crowned Pudendum Carried By Three Walking Penises, 14th/15th centuries

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Crowned Pudendum Carried By Three Walking Penises, 14th/15th centuries

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What better way to ward off the infectious "evil eye" of dying plague victims than with this apotropaic pilgrim's badge? To deflect a harmful look, it had to be attracted towards something striking that would absorb the evil.  Bawdy images were thought to be the most effective at drawing glances.  Visitors to holy shrines could purchase these cheap souvenirs to be worn about their bodies. Some of the badges even show pudenda pilgrims themselves wearing badges. Medieval medicine and magic were not separate categories. Large quantities of badges have been found in rivers all over Europe since the 19th century.

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Countries With Confirmed Coronavirus Cases, July 12, 2020

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Countries With Confirmed Coronavirus Cases, July 12, 2020

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Source: CBC news

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Fires were thought to clear the plague miasma, or pestilent air.

Nobles and clergy, two of the three “estates," or established social classes, accompany a man in red throwing wood on the fire. On the right, another man (perhaps a peasant—the third estate) brings more wood. And in the fire? Jews. Seeing their Jewish neighbors less afflicted, Christians turned their anger on them. Often confined to ghettos, under strict curfews in cities, and observing different dietary practices, Jews may have been more isolated and therefore less exposed to the disease bacteria. Pierart dou Tielt, Massacre of the Jews in 1349, Bibliothèque royale de Belgique, MS 13076-77

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Traveling Priests, New York City, May 24, 2020 

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Traveling Priests, New York City, May 24, 2020 

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Krytyna Kopacki prays with Deacon Robert Lavanco of Our Lady of Hope Catholic Church during a procession called the Blessed Sacrament on May 24.

Mike Segar/Reuters

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Attention-getting public safety memes circulate on worldwide social media.

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Can paintings heal? Most medical texts recommended avoiding scenes that arouse strong responses, but Poussin deliberately imagined a horrifying image from a Biblical plague to offer a purging effect. A dead mother with her still-nursing infant inverts the calm medieval Virgin Mary and infant icon. (Shown here is a copy of Nichols Poussin's 1631 Plague of Ashdod by Angelo Caroselli.)

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Female medical personnel With Elderly Patient, Moscow, April 21

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Female medical personnel With Elderly Patient, Moscow, April 21

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This elderly patient was released from an intensive care unit.  AP PHOTO

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Aerial view of gravediggers at the Vila Formosa Cemetery, in the outskirts of Sao Paulo.