Brutality posters & prints

Second Degree of Torture of the Inquisition LC Stadler

Levantines sacking a Mediterranean Port Lodewijk Toeput

How Long Shall Such Brutality Last! Magazine Illustration Published in Frank Leslie's Illustrated Newspaper Anonymous

The Misery of War. The Pyre Claude Callot

The Martyrdom of Saint Sebastian, c.1497 Josse (fl.1493-1508) Lieferinxe

Nero orders Christian martyrdom by burying with fire Cristoforo & Tempesta Antonio Roncalli

Sacking a farm during the period of the French Revolution Etienne Bericourt

Third Degree of Torture of the Inquisition LC Stadler

From Liege to Aix-la-Chapelle Louis Raemaekers

Mehmed III, Ottoman Emperor Anonymous

Room in the Mariinskaya Hospital where Fyodor Kokoshkin was murdered, Petrograd, Russia, 1918 Unknown

Palace Square, St Petersburg, Russia, on Bloody Sunday, 1905 Anonymous

The mortuary, Barcelona, Catalonia, Spain, Spanish Civil War Anonymous

The Massacre of the Innocents Sebastien Bourdon

Martyrdom of a saint: burnt alive upside down Cristoforo & Tempesta Antonio Roncalli

Scene of a Battle Jan van Huchtenburgh

Martyrdom of Saint Julietta and her son Saint Quiricus School Italian

The Demon Rough Joseph Swain

Bullfight. Wounded Picador Marià Fortuny

The Flagellation, ca. 1552-61 Battista Franco Veneziano

Execution of a Jewess in Tangiers, 1860 Alfred Dehodencq

Room where Tsar Nicholas II and his family were executed, Yekaterinburg, Russia, July 17 1918 Anonymous

The Rape of the Sabine Women Peter Paul Rubens

Soldiers Sacking a Burning Monastery Abraham Danielsz. Hondius

A female saint is boiled alive Cristoforo & Tempesta Antonio (1555-1630) Roncalli

The Beheading of Saint John the Baptist Lorenzo Baldiserra Tiepolo

The Massacre of Peterloo, or Britons Strike Home George Cruikshank

Yakov Yurovsky, chief executioner of Tsar Nicholas II and his family Anonymous

The Hunting of Chevy Chase, 1825-26 Edwin Landseer

The Flagellation of Christ, from The Passion of Christ, mid 17th century Nicolas Cochin

Eleazar refusing to eat pork Jean-Simon Berthelemy

Corrida, 1927 Anonymous

The Capture of Christ Albrecht Dürer

The Flagellation, from the Circular Passion, 1509 Lucas van Leyden

A Village Bullfight Francisco de Goya

The Flagellation, from The Passion of Christ, ca. 1623 Ludovicus Siceram