Hope and Healing: Painting in Italy in a Time of Plague, 1500-1800 by Bailey, Gauvin Alexander; Jones, Pamela M. ; Mormando, Franco; Worcester, Thomas W. ; Barker, Sheila C. ; Clifton, James; Hopkins, Andrew - 2005

Worcester, MA: the Holy Cross. Very Good; Covers lightly scuffed, a few smudges in text.. 2005. Softcover. 0936042052 . Softcover with French flaps. viii, 264pp, catalogue of the exhibition, index, many illustrations in black and white and in color. Published in conjunction with an exhibition at the Worcester Art Museum held April 3 - Sept. 25, 2005. Authors discuss how art was used during the early modern era and its frequent epidemics to be “an instrument of healing and encouragement, a mirror and a channel of society’s search for solace and cure from the heavens, that is, from God and the saints, as well as through ordinary human means, such as charity towards one’s neighbor. ” ; 4to 11" - 13" tall .