Examples of Black Death in the following topics:
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- In 1347 a deadly disease later known as the Black Death struck the Empire, and spread throughout Europe in the years 1348, 1349, and 1350.
- The death toll was about 35 million people in total in Europe - about one-third of the population.
- Discuss the Great Famine, the Black Death, and the political and social unrest of the Holy Roman Empire in the 13th and 14th centuries.
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- While Giotto is often referred to as the herald of the Renaissance, there was a break in artistic developments in Italy after his death, due largely to the Black Death.
- His style and techniques became profoundly influential after his death and were imitated by his successors.
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- Additionally, the Black Death caused by the Bubonic Plague killed nearly half the population of Europe through successive waves.
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- Often, these elaborate shrines took a long time to complete-- long after an important individual's death.
- In the late Middle Ages, influenced by the Black Death and devotional writers, explicit memento mori imagery of death in the forms of skulls or skeletons, or even decomposing corpses overrun with worms in the transi tomb, became common in northern Europe.
- Initially, these were brightly colored and patterned, but later were often black.
- Elsewhere, death masks were used in similar fashion.
- "The Mirror of Death": Detail from a French Renaissance monument of 1547.
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- The Classical period witnessed the continuation of red- and black-figure painting techniques on ceramic objects.
- Their main characteristic is that they maintained features of black-figure vase painting in the red-figure technique.
- As such, many of the scenes painted on white ground lekythoi depict or allude to funerary scenes (such as funerary rites and rituals) or images of warriors departing their wives for battle and death.
- While the scene of Herakles fighting Geryon depicts a rather violent prelude to death, the imagery on later lekythoi is somewhat more sedate.
- Attic white-ground black-figure lekythos.
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- Cezanne's "Dark Period" in 1861-1870, is comprised of works that are characterized by dark colors and the heavy use of black.
- The Black Marble Clock, with it's heavy use of black and dark colors, exemplifies the type of work Cezanne created during his "Dark Period" in his early career.
- Pyramid of Skulls, c. 1901, The dramatic resignation to death informs several still life paintings Cézanne made between 1898 and 1905.
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- The most famous example of sculpture under the Qin Dynasty was a project commissioned during Qin Shihuang's rule known as the Terracotta Army, intended to protect the emperor after his death.
- The "army" of sculptures consists of more than 7,000 life-size tomb terracotta figures of warriors and horses that were buried with Qin Shihuang after his death in 210–209 BCE.
- The figures were painted in bright pigments before being placed into the vault, and the original colors of pink, red, green, blue, black, brown, white, and lilac were visible when the pieces were first unearthed.
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- Furthermore, the Black Obelisk of Shalmaneser III, discovered in 1846, stands six-and-a-half-feet tall and commemorates the king's victorious campaigns from 859–824 BCE.
- After his death, his son and successor Sennacherib abandoned the project and relocated the capital with its administration to the city of Nineveh.
- Since Dur-Sharrukin was a single-period site that was evacuated in an orderly manner after the death of Sargon II, few individual objects were found.
- In around 627 BCE, after the death of its last great king Ashurbanipal, the Neo-Assyrian empire began to unravel due to a series of bitter civil wars, and Assyria was attacked by the Babylonians and Medes.
- The Black Obelisk of Shalmaneser III commemorates the king's victorious campaigns from 859–824 BCE.
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- Six hundred black granite statues were found in the courtyard to her temple, possibly the oldest portion of the site.
- Popularly referred to as "King Tut," the boy-king took the throne when he was nine and ruled until his early death at age nineteen.
- His death may have occurred unexpectedly, before the completion of a grander royal tomb, so that his mummy was buried in a tomb intended for someone else.
- Scattered remains of two statues of the seated king can be seen, one in pink granite and the other in black granite, which once flanked the entrance to the temple.
- After his death, he was buried in a tomb in the Valley of the Kings; his body was later moved to a royal cache, where it was discovered in 1881.
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- Images in the cloth include depictions of William, Duke of Normandy; the coronation and death of the English King Harold; the Battle of Hastings; and even Halley's Comet.
- The main yarn colors are terracotta or russet, blue-green, dull gold, olive green, and blue, with small amounts of dark blue, black, and sage green.