Violence in Art
Victory stele of Naram-Sin
Present day Iran
2200 BCE
(trampling of enemies)
Column of Trajan
Roman, Italy
Patron
(scenes from the Dacian War)
South portal of Saint Pierre
Moisac, France
1120
(Christ in the Last Judgment)
Saint Anthony Tormented by Demons
Artist: Martin Schongauer
1480
(demons tearing at St. Anthony)
Battle of San Romano
Artist: Paolo Uccello
1455
(battle scene)
Abduction of the Sabine Woman
Artist: Geovanni da Balogna
1579
(Romans capturing a Sabine woman)
Garden of Earthly Delights
Artist: Hieronymous Bosch
1505
(people being tormented by demons)
Judith Slaying Holofernes
Artist: Artemesia Gentileschi
1614
(Judith beheading Holofernes)
Martyrdom of Saint Philip
Artist: Jose de Ribera
1639
(raising of Philip on a cross)
Death of Marat
Artist: Jacques-Louis David
1793
(Marat dead in a bloody bath)
Third of May, 1808
Artist: Francisco Goya
1814
(murder of Spanish civilians by French military)
A Harvest of Death, Gettysburg, Pennsylvania, July 1863
Artist: Timothy O'Sullivan
1863
(dead Union soldiers at Gettysburg 1863)
Guernica
Artist: Pablo Picasso
1937
(Spanish civilians/animals/soldiers effected in time of war)
And There's Nothing To Be Done
Goya
N'kiwis nkondi
(Africa)
The Slave Ship
Turner
Liberty Leading the People
Delacroix
Isenheim Altarpiece
(Northern Renaissance)
Grunewald
Self Portrait with Bandaid
van Gogh
Spoils of Jerusalem
Arch of Titus
Seated Boxer
(Hellenistic, Greece)
Present day Iran
2200 BCE
(trampling of enemies)
Column of Trajan
Roman, Italy
Patron
(scenes from the Dacian War)
South portal of Saint Pierre
Moisac, France
1120
(Christ in the Last Judgment)
Saint Anthony Tormented by Demons
Artist: Martin Schongauer
1480
(demons tearing at St. Anthony)
Battle of San Romano
Artist: Paolo Uccello
1455
(battle scene)
Abduction of the Sabine Woman
Artist: Geovanni da Balogna
1579
(Romans capturing a Sabine woman)
Garden of Earthly Delights
Artist: Hieronymous Bosch
1505
(people being tormented by demons)
Judith Slaying Holofernes
Artist: Artemesia Gentileschi
1614
(Judith beheading Holofernes)
Martyrdom of Saint Philip
Artist: Jose de Ribera
1639
(raising of Philip on a cross)
Death of Marat
Artist: Jacques-Louis David
1793
(Marat dead in a bloody bath)
Third of May, 1808
Artist: Francisco Goya
1814
(murder of Spanish civilians by French military)
A Harvest of Death, Gettysburg, Pennsylvania, July 1863
Artist: Timothy O'Sullivan
1863
(dead Union soldiers at Gettysburg 1863)
Guernica
Artist: Pablo Picasso
1937
(Spanish civilians/animals/soldiers effected in time of war)
And There's Nothing To Be Done
Goya
N'kiwis nkondi
(Africa)
The Slave Ship
Turner
Liberty Leading the People
Delacroix
Isenheim Altarpiece
(Northern Renaissance)
Grunewald
Self Portrait with Bandaid
van Gogh
Spoils of Jerusalem
Arch of Titus
Seated Boxer
(Hellenistic, Greece)
