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The Getty Research Portal is an online search platform providing global access to digitized art history texts in the public domain. Through this multilingual, multicultural union catalog, scholars can search and download complete digital copies of publications (including rare books, foundational literatures, and periodicals) for the study of art, architecture, material culture, and related fields.
Europe, 1450-1789: encyclopedia of the early modern world by 
Encyclopedia of the Black Death by 
Oxford Dictionary of National Biography by The most authoritative and extensive encyclopedia for Art is Grove Art Online (available through Oxford Art Online) .
Includes:
America's Forgotten Pandemic: The Influenza of 1918 by 
The Black Death and the Transformation of the West by 
The Black Death Transformed by 
The Burdens of Disease: Epidemics and Human Response in Western History by 
Cristofano and the Plague; A Study in the History of Public Health in the Age of Galileo by 
Explaining Epidemics by Faith, Reason and the Plague in Seventeenth-Century Tuscany by Faith, Reason and the Plague in Seventeenth-Century Tuscany by 
Florence under Siege: Surviving Plague in an Early Modern City by 
Framing Disease : Studies in Cultural History by Framing Disease : Studies in Cultural History by 
The Good Women of the Parish: Gender and Religion after the Black Death by Hope and Healing : Painting in Italy in a Time of Plague, 1500-1800 by Hope and Healing : Painting in Italy in a Time of Plague, 1500-1800 by 
Mapping Space, Sense, and Movement in Florence by 
New Approaches to Naples c.1500–c.1800: The Power of Place by 
Pandemic Disease in the Medieval World by 
Plague and Empire in the Early Modern Mediterranean World by 
Representing the Plague in Early Modern England by 
The Fifteenth Century XII: Society in an Age of Plague by 
