This is an overview of historical plagues and their depictions in art.

1. Plague

2. The Spread of the Black Death

4. The Black Death at Tournai,
France, 1349

14. Plague Victims Blessed
James Le Palmer, 14th Century

15. Plague
Toggenburg Bible, 1411

16. Plague, 15th Century

17. Plague, 15th Century

20. The Dance of Death
Nuremberg Chronicle, 1493

21. The Pope Leading a Procession to Pray
for the End of the Plague, 15th Century

22. The Plague in Phrygia
Marc Antonio Raimond, 1516

23. The Triumph of Death
Peter Bruegel the Elder, c. 1562

32. The Plague of Azoth
Nicholas Poussin, 1631

34. The Great Plague of London,
1665

41. Rita Greer, 2009

42. St. Macarius Helping Plague Victims
Jacob van Oost, 1673

43. The Plague
Geteano Zumbo, 17th Century

44. The Plague Altar
Ludovico Lana, 17th Century

45. The Plague of Marseille, 1720

48. The Plague in Marseille
Michel Serre, 1720

49. The Plague in Marseille
Michel Serre, 1720

50. The Plague of Marseille

51. The Plague
Van Mieris Frans Le Jeune, 18th Century

52. Napoleon Visiting the Plague Victims at Jaffa
Antoine-Jean Gros, 1804

54. The Plague Lazarette
Francesco de Goya, 1810

55. Plague in Barcelona
Horace Vernet, 1822

56. The Plague in Israel
Gustave Doré, 1866

57. The Plague in Rome
Elle Delaunay, 1869

58. The Plague is Coming
Theodor Kittelsen, 1895

59. The Plague is on the Stairs
Theodor Kittelsen, 1896

60. The Plague
Arnold Böcklin, 1898

61. The Plague Woman
Alphonse Mucha, 1899

62. The Plague Series
Felix Jenewein, 1900

63. Outbreak of Infection

64. Burials

65. Debauchery

66. The Stoning of the Doctor

67. Penance

68. Reconciliation

69. Rat Catchers in Sydney during the
Bubonic Plague of 1900

70. Plague
Jaroslav Panuška, 1903

71. Epidemic
Alfred Kubin, 1903

72. Plague
Emil Holárek, 1905