Beheadings in art

English: Beheading or Decapitation (from Latin, caput, capitis, meaning head), is the removal of a living organism's head.

Gallery

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  Jephthah's sacrifice - Maciejowski Bible (France, ca. 1250)
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  Ambrogio Lorenzetti:Justizia distributiva, 1338-1340
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  Beheading of the 4th Duke of Somerset (Edmund Beaufort) in 1471 at Tewkesbury
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  Beheading of Hans Waldmann, unknown author
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  The Beheading of Cosmas and Damian, by Fra Angelico
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  Camillo Boccaccino, David (1530)
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  Miniature on wood in the Cosmographie Universelle of Munster, Basle, 1552.
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  Judith, beheading Holofernes by Caravaggio. Ca. 1598.
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  Découverte du corps décapité du tyran Holopherne, dans sa tente de campement Sandro Botticelli
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  Salome and the Beheading of St. John the Baptist, by Titian
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  Ścięcie królowej Marii Antoniny na Placu Rewolucji, 1793
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  Die Hinrichtung von Karl Ludwig Sand am 20. Mai 1820
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  Lady Jane Grey being executed, by Paul Delaroche, around 1833
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  from Dante's Inferno, Canto 28, illustrated by Gustave Doré
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  Execution of the Comuneros of Castile, by Antonio Gisbert
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  Johann Nepomuk Geiger: Ali Pasha's head is presented to Sultan Mahmut II.. Lithography 1860
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  Henri Regnault:Exécution sans jugement sous les roi maures de Grenade, 1870
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  Saint Nicholas of Myra saves three innocents from death, by Ilya Repin, 1888
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  The Huesca Bell by José Casado del Alisal, 1880