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I recently discovered that flickr has book illustrations gong back to the early 1500s. Turns out walking skeletons were pretty common back then. This feisty on
by dukeofdoom 5y ago
I recently discovered that flickr has book illustrations gong back to the early 1500s. Turns out walking skeletons were pretty common back then. This feisty one likes to tug on peoples clothes for some reason.
https://www.flickr.com/photos/internetarchivebookimages/tags/bookidlessimulachreshi1538holb https://www.flickr.com/photos/internetarchivebookimages/tags...
Not sure if diet, or constant presence of death. I've considered how well people ate back then. On the one hand there were far fewer people and more wild animals, and food was organic, and everyone drank wine an cooked on a fire. On average probably pretty well. Except for winter/early spring, and on a bad year when crops failed.
- selimthegrim 5y agoYou might like Public Domain Review, then.
- dukeofdoom 5y agoThanks, I checked it out. Awesome! So many mind disturbing images.
- distances 5y agoMaybe due to the increase of dance macabre themes in visual arts after Black Death? https://worldhistory.us/european-history/the-plague-and-the-dance-of-black-death-in-the-renaissance.php https://worldhistory.us/european-history/the-plague-and-the-...