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The so-called death mask of Agamemnon - the king of Mycenae in Homer's Iliad. Gold funeral mask from Grave Circle A, Mycenae (mid-16th century BCE). The mask in fact predates Agamemnon by 400 years but nevertheless remains...

Death of the Princess de Lamballe, oil on canvas by Léon-Maxime Faivre, 1908. The painting depicts the murder of the Princess de Lamballe in the September Massacres, during the French Revolution (1789-99). Lamballe...

An illustration depicting the death of the Portuguese navigator Ferdinand Magellan (c. 1480-1521) whose expedition was the first to circumnavigate the globe in 1519-22. Magellan was killed on 27 April 1521 at the Battle...

The death mask of Egyptian pharaoh Tutankhamun. The mask is made of gold, precious stones, and glass inlay, 14th century BCE. Museum of Egyptian Antiquities, Cairo.

Oil on canvas by F. Ménageot, 1781, Amboise, Royal Castle, Death of Leonardo da Vinci in the arms of Francis the First. Leonardo da Vinci died at the Cloux Manor (known as the Clos-Lucé today) on 2 May 1519, in Amboise...

The Death of Messalina, oil on canvas painting by Georges Antoine Rochegrosse, 1916. Depicted here is the killing of Valeria Messalina, wife of the Emperor Claudius.

Depicted here is the Death of King Władysław Jagiellończyk (r. 1424-1444 CE) at the Battle of Varna. This was a decisive moment in the Crusade of Varna, as the Turks under Sultan Murad II (r. 1421-1444 CE and...

A 15th century CE painting depicting the death of French king Louis IX in 1270 CE during the Eighth Crusade at Tunis.

Death of Marat, oil on canvas by Jacques-Louis David, 1793. Royal Museums of Fine Arts, Brussels.

A 1796 engraving showing the death of Wat Tyler, one of the leaders of the Peasants' Revolt in England in 1381. Here he is executed by Sir William Walworth. Tyler's head was displayed on London Bridge.