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Nantes : mme.de la Billais and two daughters guillotined for distributing images of the Sacred Heart
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Death and the Picture: Representation of War Criminals and Construction of Divided Memory about World War II in Hungary Pető, Andrea Preprint / Preprint Sammelwerksbeitrag / collection article https://www.ssoar.info/ssoar/bitstr...peto-Death_and_the_Picture_Representation.pdf
Spanish Persecution in the West Indies, 16th Century
Theodore de Bry
Theodore de Bry
In the picture we see the death of the queen, it is called “The Death of Queen Galsvinta”, Eugene Filast
1846 Oil, canvas. Size: 304 x 243 cm. Museum of Soissons, France.
This sad and instructive story happened a long time ago. And it was like this...
Galesvinta (lat. Galesvinta, Galsvinta or Galsuinda) is the second wife of the Frankish king Chilperic I. Philaster in his work turned to the historical subjects of the Merovingian dynasty, set forth by Gregory of Tours and Fredegar.
Queen Galsvinta (540-568) was born a wealthy Visigothic princess who was forced to travel to Neustria (part of modern France) to marry King Chilperic I. The king was completely enchanted by her. He gave her the lands of Limoges, Bordeaux, Cahors, Béarn and Bigorre and promised to dismiss all his wives and other betrotheds if she married him (he may have been after her substantial dowry).
In 567, Chilperic married Galesvinta and received a rich dowry with her. For some time he actually removed Fredegonda from himself. However, she began to actively intrigue against the new queen. A year after the wedding, because of Fredegonda’s machinations, Chilperic lost interest in his wife, and quarrels constantly broke out between them. Gregory of Tours wrote: “Galesvinta did not cease to complain to the king about the insults that she had to endure. She said he showed her no respect and asked that she be allowed to return home, even if it meant leaving behind all the treasures she had brought with her."
After another quarrel, Chilperic reassured his wife with kind words and, assuring her of his love, put her to bed. Then the king ordered the servant to strangle Galesvinta in her sleep, and in the morning he pretended to find her dead.
Philastra's painting depicts the very moment of the murder. The servant bent over the queen lying in bed and, squeezing her throat with his left hand, tightened the noose around her neck with his right. Galesvinta tries to resist, but the forces are too unequal. Her gaze is already glazing over and death is inevitable. From behind, Chilperic is carefully watching the execution of his order.
1846 Oil, canvas. Size: 304 x 243 cm. Museum of Soissons, France.
This sad and instructive story happened a long time ago. And it was like this...
Galesvinta (lat. Galesvinta, Galsvinta or Galsuinda) is the second wife of the Frankish king Chilperic I. Philaster in his work turned to the historical subjects of the Merovingian dynasty, set forth by Gregory of Tours and Fredegar.
Queen Galsvinta (540-568) was born a wealthy Visigothic princess who was forced to travel to Neustria (part of modern France) to marry King Chilperic I. The king was completely enchanted by her. He gave her the lands of Limoges, Bordeaux, Cahors, Béarn and Bigorre and promised to dismiss all his wives and other betrotheds if she married him (he may have been after her substantial dowry).
In 567, Chilperic married Galesvinta and received a rich dowry with her. For some time he actually removed Fredegonda from himself. However, she began to actively intrigue against the new queen. A year after the wedding, because of Fredegonda’s machinations, Chilperic lost interest in his wife, and quarrels constantly broke out between them. Gregory of Tours wrote: “Galesvinta did not cease to complain to the king about the insults that she had to endure. She said he showed her no respect and asked that she be allowed to return home, even if it meant leaving behind all the treasures she had brought with her."
After another quarrel, Chilperic reassured his wife with kind words and, assuring her of his love, put her to bed. Then the king ordered the servant to strangle Galesvinta in her sleep, and in the morning he pretended to find her dead.
Philastra's painting depicts the very moment of the murder. The servant bent over the queen lying in bed and, squeezing her throat with his left hand, tightened the noose around her neck with his right. Galesvinta tries to resist, but the forces are too unequal. Her gaze is already glazing over and death is inevitable. From behind, Chilperic is carefully watching the execution of his order.
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German police put blindfolds on Polish women who were taken by bus to be shot in the vicinity of the village of Palmiry near Warsaw. Probably 1940
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German soldiers lead Polish women to be shot in the forest near the village of Palmiry. After the war, the woman in the foreground was identified as Janina Skalska.
On June 21, 1940, more than 350 Poles were shot by the Germans in the Kampinos Forest near the village of Palmyra near Warsaw. The execution took place as part of the targeted extermination of disloyal Polish intelligentsia by the Nazi occupation authorities. Officials, teachers, athletes, and clergy were included in the execution lists.
On June 21, 1940, more than 350 Poles were shot by the Germans in the Kampinos Forest near the village of Palmyra near Warsaw. The execution took place as part of the targeted extermination of disloyal Polish intelligentsia by the Nazi occupation authorities. Officials, teachers, athletes, and clergy were included in the execution lists.
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Marie-Therese de Lamballe. . She was torn to pieces by the crowd, and then the severed head, pomaded and curled, was carried through Paris to be shown through bars to Queen Marie Antoinette.
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Belgian women accused of having relations with the Germans in a zoo cage after the liberation of Antwerp by the Allies, 1944
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Murder of the Serbian royal family. In the early morning of June 11, 1903, conspiratorial officers led by Dragutin Dmitrievich-Apis entered the royal palace and brutally killed King Alexander, his wife Draga, her two brothers: Nikolai and Nikodim, Prime Minister Marković, Minister of War Milovan Pavlovich and some officers loyal to the king, and the Minister of Internal Affairs, Velimir Todorovic, was seriously wounded. The assassins hit the King with six shots from a revolver and 40 blows from a saber, and the Queen with 63 blows from a saber and two revolver bullets. The queen was almost completely hacked to pieces. When the killers had had enough of the defenseless corpses, they threw them through the window into the palace garden,
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Beatrice Cenci and her stepmother, in bed in prison in Rome, hear their mandate of execution being read by a Papal envoy accompanied by members of a confraternity of Saint John the Baptist. Etching, ca. 1850.
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