The Plague

Plague is an 1898 painting in tempera by the Swiss symbolist artist Arnold Böcklin (1827 – 1901), held in the Kunstmuseum Basel. It exemplifies the artist's obsession with nightmares of war, pestilence and death. The painting shows Death riding on a bat-like winged creature who travels through a street in a medieval European town.

Plague is rendered mostly using shades of pale green, a colour often associated with decomposition. The other predominant tones are black and dull browns; for example, in the clothes worn by the figures shown in the mid-ground and background as they dive for safety before Death's path. The red cloth of the woman shown in the mid-foreground is the only vivid colour seen; she lies across the corpse of a woman who was also cut down.

摘自英文维基百科「Plague (painting)」（CC BY-SA 4.0），暂时没有中文条目。