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The Crucifixion of Saint Peter is an oil painting made by Caravaggio around 1600 to 1601 for the Cerasi Chapel in Santa Maria del Popolo, Rome. It depicts three laborers raising a cross on which the elderly Peter has been nailed upside down, emphasizing physical weight, effort, and rough materials r...
Caravaggio painted The Martyrdom of Saint Matthew in 1599-1600 for the Contarelli Chapel in San Luigi dei Francesi, Rome, where it remains. The large oil painting shows an executioner preparing to strike Matthew amid a chaotic scattering of witnesses, while an angel reaches down with the martyr's pa...
The Martyrdom of the Ten Thousand is a woodcut by the German Renaissance artist Albrecht Dürer, dated 1496, that depicts the legendary execution of 10,000 Christian soldiers. The composition presents a dense, panoramic view of crucifixions and tortures across a rocky landscape, demonstrating Dürer’s...
Caravaggio painted The Burial of Saint Lucy in 1608 during his stay in Syracuse, Sicily. The large altarpiece shows Lucy's grave being prepared by two monumental diggers while mourners and clergy gather behind them, leaving an unusually broad expanse of bare wall above the figures. Its restricted pa...
Caravaggio's Crucifixion of Saint Andrew is a large oil-on-canvas painting made around 1606-1607 and now in the Cleveland Museum of Art. It depicts executioners lowering the bound apostle from a cross as spectators gather nearby, concentrating the narrative into a shallow, darkened space. Caravaggio...
The Imam Hussein Shrine is a prominent Islamic mosque and mausoleum located in Karbala, Iraq, housing the tomb of Hussein ibn Ali. Hussein was the grandson of the Islamic prophet Muhammad and was killed during the Battle of Karbala in 680 CE. The site serves as one of the holiest locations for Shia...
Albrecht Dürer's woodcut "The Beheading of Saint John the Baptist" depicts the executioner presenting the severed head on a platter, a dramatic rendering of the biblical martyrdom.
The Bishop Henry and Lalli legend tells how the Finnish peasant Lalli killed missionary Bishop Henry on the ice of Lake Köyliö, traditionally in 1156.
