{"id":67,"date":"2017-08-28T18:47:00","date_gmt":"2017-08-29T01:47:00","guid":{"rendered":""},"modified":"2019-11-04T18:38:07","modified_gmt":"2019-11-05T02:38:07","slug":"iconic-plague-images-are-often-not-what-they-seem","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.palomar.edu\/artsmedialab\/iconic-plague-images-are-often-not-what-they-seem\/","title":{"rendered":"Iconic Plague Images Are Often Not What They Seem"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>For those interested in Art History NPR recently released a story about how many of the images we associate with the plague actually depict leprosy or smallpox. In fact, there are very few images of the Black Death from the time of the scourge.\u00a0 To see more of the images and an explanation check out the story <a href=\"http:\/\/www.npr.org\/sections\/goatsandsoda\/2017\/08\/18\/542435991\/those-iconic-images-of-the-plague-thats-not-the-plague?utm_source=facebook.com&amp;utm_medium=social&amp;utm_campaign=npr&amp;utm_term=nprnews&amp;utm_content=20170820\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">here<\/a><\/p>\n<div style=\"clear: both;text-align: center\"><\/div>\n<p>A. Dagli Orti\/Getty Images<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>For those interested in Art History NPR recently released a story about how many of the images we associate with the plague actually depict leprosy or smallpox. In fact, there are very few images of the Black Death from the time of the scourge.\u00a0 To see more of the images and an explanation check out&hellip; <a class=\"continue\" href=\"https:\/\/www.palomar.edu\/artsmedialab\/iconic-plague-images-are-often-not-what-they-seem\/\">\u00a0Continue Reading:<span> Iconic Plague Images Are Often Not What They Seem<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":490,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[1,16],"tags":[2058,2057,2059],"class_list":["post-67","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-art","category-art-history","tag-black-death","tag-leprosy","tag-smallpox"],"acf":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack-related-posts":[{"id":54,"url":"https:\/\/www.palomar.edu\/artsmedialab\/art-institute-of-chicago-offers-free-high-resolution-images\/","url_meta":{"origin":67,"position":0},"title":"Art Institute of Chicago offers free High-Resolution images","author":"Mcnamara, Keri","date":"October 25, 2018","format":false,"excerpt":"The Art Institute of Chicago has opened up much of its digital archive to the public. 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