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RE: Art Explained By A Writer - Het Zieke Kind (The Sick Child - 1660-1665)
The Plague of Ashdod (1620) by Nicolas Poussin
This Baroque painting portrays the biblical plague that struck the city of Ashdod, showing the effects of disease on the people and the environment.
But did the plague effect Tunesia? This is a French painter or are you French and did you emigrate?
What I find amazing is that the Netherlands was involved in a war that nearly last 80 years and at the same time it was their golden age and there was a plague...
No, I'm Tunisian, but I remember studying this. It's not for French, but it is a powerful depiction of a biblical event. In Tunisia, we have a strong French culture because we were colonized by the French, and French is also the second language here.