Gruesome Collection

The Dragon Devouring the Companions of Cadmus, 1588. Creator: Hendrik Goltzius
The Dragon Devouring the Companions of Cadmus, 1588

Mouse or rat trap?, late 19th or early 20th century

Trompe l'oeil: Two bats nailed to a timber wall, knife and quill pen ("The Bat Painting"), 1738

AI IMAGE - Illustration of Sweeney Todd, 2023. Creator: Heritage Images
AI IMAGE - Illustration of Sweeney Todd, 2023. Notorious fictional villain, known as the Demon Barber of Fleet Street, who murders his customers with a straight razor and gives their corpses to Mrs

Man being trampled by an elephant - folio from the Akbarnama, late 10th century AH/AD 16th century. Creator: Unknown
Man being trampled by an elephant - folio from the Akbarnama, late 10th century AH/AD 16th century. Mughal painting, originally from a copy of the Akbarnamah

The Suicide of Two Foreign Clerks, 1875. Creator: Tsukioka Yoshitoshi
The Suicide of Two Foreign Clerks, 1875. Series: The Postal News, no. 647

Sheep Butcher. Creator: Unknown
Sheep Butcher, Unknown date. Manner of David Teniers the Younger

Two Owls Fighting over a Rat, late 17th-early 18th century. Creator: Hans Georg Muller
Two Owls Fighting over a Rat, late 17th-early 18th century

Night, 1918. Artist: Max Beckmann
Night, 1918. From the collection of the Kunstsammlung Nordrhein-Westfalen, Dusseldorf, Germany

Head of a Chinese Criminal exposed in a Cage to his Children...1857. Creator: Unknown
Head of a Chinese Criminal exposed in a Cage to his Children, from a drawing by a Chinese artist...1857. The penal code of China...is marked by great barbarity

Garotting a Chinese Criminal - from a drawing by a Chinese artist, 1857. Creator: Unknown
Garotting a Chinese Criminal - from a drawing by a Chinese artist, 1857. The penal code of China...is marked by great barbarity

Chinese Criminal led to Execution - from a drawing by a Chinese artist, 1857. Creator: Unknown
Chinese Criminal led to Execution - from a drawing by a Chinese artist, 1857. The penal code of China...is marked by great barbarity

Saints Christophorus and Erasmus, each with a coat of arms, 1510-1550. Creator: Sebald Beham
Saints Christophorus and Erasmus, each with a coat of arms, 1510-1550. Erasmus is holding his entrails wound on a windlass. Possibly by Hans Sebald Beham

A Dog and a Cat near a partially disembowelled Deer, 1645-1660. Creator: Jan Baptist Weenix
A Dog and a Cat near a partially disembowelled Deer, 1645-1660

Salomé with the head of John the Baptist, c.1861. Creator: Jan Adam Kruseman
Salome with the head of John the Baptist, c.1861

Salome receives the head of John the Baptist, c.1640-c.1645. Creator: Circle of Rembrandt van Rijn
Salome receives the head of John the Baptist, c.1640-c.1645. Alternative title: The beheading of John the Baptist

Bear Hunt, 1649. Creator: Paulus Potter
Bear Hunt, 1649

Apollo Flaying Marsyas, 1651-1706. Creator: Girolamo Troppa
Apollo Flaying Marsyas, 1651-1706

The Judgement of Solomon, 1615-1618. Creator: Peter Paul Rubens
The Judgement of Solomon, 1615-1618

The Feast of Herod. Salome Bringing the Head of St John the Baptist on a Charger, 1600-1699. Creator: Peter Paul Rubens
The Feast of Herod. Salome Bringing the Head of St John the Baptist on a Charger, 1600-1699

Sigismonda, published June 4, 1795. Creator: Benjamin Smith
Sigismonda, published June 4, 1795. The weeping princess presses to her breast the heart of her lover Guiscardo, which his murderers have sent to her in a goblet

Le jugement du pape Formose, c.1870. Creator: Jean-Paul Laurens
Le jugement du pape Formose, c.1870. The judgment of Pope Formosus. After the death of Formosus in 896 CE, Pope Stephen VI sat in judgment of him in 897, in what is known as the Cadaver Synod

Tête de supplicié, c.1810. Creator: Jean-Baptiste Carpeaux
Tete de supplicie, c.1810

Photographie de la blessure causée par une balle explosible... 1914. Creator: Harris & Ewing
Photographie de la blessure causee par une balle explosible... 1914....a un homme du 152me Regt. d'Infanterie (8me Compagnie); (combat du 10 Aout 1914 au col de Lonchpach contre le 171me Regt)

Falconer about to Disengage Falcons from Quarry, 1850. Creator: Unknown
Falconer about to Disengage Falcons from Quarry, 1850. When the falcon strikes his bird down, he immediately places one talon on the shoulder of his prey, and the other on the neck

Peruvian Mummies, 1850. Creator: Unknown
Peruvian Mummies, 1850. Two days journey from Calama lies an old Peruvian burial-place, called Chin-Chin. The bodies are there in a semicircle, to the number of 500 or 600 - men, women

The Ortolan, 1850. Creator: Unknown
The Ortolan, 1850. The Ortolan is not famed for its song, which is, however, soft and sweet...it formed one of the costly items of M

David and Goliath, n.d. Creator: Henry Pierce Bone
David and Goliath, n.d

Ward for Condemned Male Prisoners, Newgate Prison, 1850. Creator: Unknown
Ward for Condemned Male Prisoners, Newgate Prison, [London], 1850. Those sentenced capitally are taken to the condemned cells, not to leave them again until their last moment, except for chapel

The International Exhibition: "Prometheus", a marble statue by Guiseppe [sic] Croft, 1862. Creator: Unknown
The International Exhibition: "Prometheus", a marble statue by Guiseppe [sic] Croft, 1862. This sculpture...is too painfully real in expression and action

Martyrdom of St. Lawrence, ca. 1505. Creator: Hans Baldung
Martyrdom of St. Lawrence, ca. 1505

Jael hammering a tent peg into the temple of the sleeping Sisera, to the right a servant hides behind a curtain; from the series of 112 prints of the sacred history

The Goddess Bhairavi Devi with Shiva, ca. 1630-35. Creator: Attributed to Payag
The Goddess Bhairavi Devi with Shiva, ca. 1630-35

Battle Between Iranians and Turanians, Folio from a Shahnama (Book of Kings), 1562-83

Battle between Alexander and Darius, Folio from a Khamsa (Quintet)... A.H. 931 / A.D
Battle between Alexander and Darius, Folio from a Khamsa (Quintet) of Nizami, A.H. 931/A.D. 1524-25

The Martyrdom of Saint Lawrence; (reverse) Giving Drink to the Thirsty. Detail from a larger artwork

Salome with the Head of Saint John the Baptist, c. 1639 / 42. Creator: Guido Reni
Salome with the Head of Saint John the Baptist, c. 1639/42

Saint Romanus of Antioch and Saint Barulas, 1638. Creator: Francisco de Zurbaran
Saint Romanus of Antioch and Saint Barulas, 1638. [Emperor Galerius commandanded that Romanus tongue was cut out. Barulas, a Christian child, was martyred alongside Romanus]

Saint Agatha, About 1500. Creators: Vergos Workshop, Rafael Vergos
Saint Agatha, About 1500. [Among the tortures St Agatha endured was the excision of her breasts with pincers]

The Beheading of Saint John the Baptist, 1490 / 1500. Creator: Master of Palanquinos
The Beheading of Saint John the Baptist, 1490/1500

Mercury rescues the disguised Io after beheading Argus, c. 1690 / 95
Mercury rescues the disguised Io after beheading Argus, c. 1690/95

Saint Christopher Meets Satan; Saint Christopher before the King of Lycia, 1480 / 85
Saint Christopher Meets Satan; Saint Christopher before the King of Lycia, 1480/85

Phalaris and the Bull of Perillus, 1590 / 1600. Creator: Giovanni Battista Caccini
Phalaris and the Bull of Perillus, 1590/1600. [The brazen bull was allegedly a torture and execution device designed by Perilaus of Athens who offered it to Phalaris, the tyrant of Akragas in Sicily

Head of a Guillotined Man, 1818 / 19. Creator: Theodore Gericault
Head of a Guillotined Man, 1818/19

The Flaying of Marsyas, mid-17th century. Creator: Giovanni Pietro Possenti
The Flaying of Marsyas, mid-17th century

Massacre of the Innocents; group of women and children being attacked, two angels at upper left, after Reni, ca. 1640-70

Judith grasping the head of Holofernes by the hair and looking to the left, an old woman at right, 1600-1640. Attributed to Giovanni Andrea Sirani

David looking at the head of Goliath, 1620-30. Creator: Giuseppe Caletti
David looking at the head of Goliath, 1620-30

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