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"Murder of the Princes in the Tower" by James Northcote (1746 - 1831 CE). A dramatic depiction of the murder of Edward V of England (1470-1483 CE) and Richard of Shrewsbury, Duke of York (1473 -1483 CE), in 1483...

Depiction of the murder of French General Theobald Dillon by his own men in the opening days of the War of the First Coalition. Pring by Joannes Bemme, c. 1800. Rijksmuseum, Amsterdam.

Queen Galswinth, wife of King Chilperic I of Neustria (r. 561-584) is strangled in her bed by a servant, while Chilperic himself looks on. Painting probably by Eugène Philastre, 1846. Museum of Soissons.

Theodebald and Gunther, young sons of the Frankish King Chlodomer (r. 511-524), are murdered by their uncle, King Chlothar I (r.511-561). In this depiction, King Chlothar is shown standing over his murdered nephew...

The brutal murder of the entire Romanov family was the culmination of deep discontent across the Russian Empire with the persistently autocratic rule of Tsar Nicholas II (reign 1894-1917). Following the disaster of...

A c. 1867 painting in oils, The Murder, by Paul Cézanne (1839-1906), the French Post-Impressionist artist. This dramatic scene of two men about to murder a third figure shows the influence of Spanish painting on the artist...

Medea about to Murder Her Children, oil on canvas by Eugène Ferdinand Victor Delacroix. 1862. Louvre Museum, Paris.

The Murder of Zwingli by Karl Jauslin (l. 1842-1904) depicting the death of the Swiss reformer Huldrych Zwingli (l. 1484-1531) at the Battle of Kappel in October 1531.

The oldest known depiction of the murder of St. Boniface, from a manufactured sacramentarium around 975 CE in Fulda. Gottingen, Universitätsbibliothek Hs. 231, f. 87R. From: Algemene Geschiedenis van de Nederlanden I (Haarlem...

The upper part shows a reclining man with a kantharos. On the left side of the urn's front is depicted the murder of the Trojan prince Troilus by Achilles, and on the right, there is an attacking fury with...