Triana - History Lab https://historylab.es Wed, 18 May 2022 14:48:29 +0000 en-US hourly 1 https://wordpress.org/?v=7.0 https://historylab.es/wp-content/uploads/2021/06/cropped-icono-historylab-32x32.jpg Triana - History Lab https://historylab.es 32 32 The plague of 1649 in Seville https://historylab.es/the-plague-of-1649-in-seville/?utm_source=rss&utm_medium=rss&utm_campaign=the-plague-of-1649-in-seville Sat, 19 Feb 2022 16:32:12 +0000 https://historylab.es/2022/02/19/la-peste-de-1649-en-sevilla/ Painting depicting the scourge of the plague in the city of Seville in 1649

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]]> During the Modern Age, numerous epidemics struck Spanish and European populations. The painting shown here, by an anonymous artist, depicts the plague in Seville in 1649. The work focuses on the Hospital de la Sangre and the Macarena Gate, a perspective of the area outside the city walls that shows the tragedy. The Junta de Salud (Board of Health) established this area as a place of transfer for care or a burial site, as was the Prado de San Sebastián or Triana. The painting also shows a procession on the left, while the central area is dominated by the transport of the sick. On the right is a greater concentration of corpses. Due to the high number of contagions and the high mortality rate, it is estimated that this outbreak of plague, the last and most virulent, claimed the lives of 60,000 people in Seville, almost 45% of the city’s population.

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