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The Plague

Arnold Böcklin, 1898
The Plague, Arnold Böcklin
The Plague, zoomed in
149.5 cmThe Plague scale comparison104.5 cm

The Plague (Die Pest) is a Symbolist Tempra on Panel Painting created by Arnold Böcklin in 1898. It lives at the Kunstmuseum Basel in Switzerland. The image is in the Public Domain, and tagged Death in Art, Monsters and Allegory. SourceDownloadSee The Plague in the Kaleidoscope

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