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1480
The Death of the Virgin
This painting shows the death of the Virgin Mary which is a tragedy in those times. -
Shakespeare’s Romeo and Juliet
The two lovers from opposing families that hate each other kill themselves to be together in the after life. -
Slavery
This was a key point of history when the colored people were subjected to just being workers that were hurt and killed when they disobeyed their masters. -
The Death of Socrates
This painting shows people that are distraught and mourning because the death of Socrates. -
The Raft of Medusa
Shows many people dying and suffering on the raft. -
Hernani
A play that ends in both main characters taking their own lives. -
V'ho ingannato, from Rigoletto
Rigoletto's deep regret and humility as he realizes that his own deceitful actions have led to the destruction of his daughter, Gilda, who he desperately tried to protect. -
The Salem Witch Trials
This painting shows a women fainting during the trials. Most Likely because her fate was decided. -
Jean-Baptiste Carpeaux – Ugolino and His Sons
It powerfully captures the moment of intense suffering and despair in the Italian legend, where Ugolino, sentenced to starve in a dungeon with his children, is depicted in a desperate, agonizing struggle for survival, emphasizing the painful emotional toll of betrayal and the certainty of death. -
Friedrich Nietzsche
“God is dead, God remains dead. And we have killed him.” -
Holocaust
This was a sad and tragic time that Adolf Hitler was putting jews into to camps to kill them off slowly. -
Death of a Loyalist Soldier" (Spanish Civil War, 1936) Photographer: Robert Capa
This photo perfectly captures the tragic death of a soldier that had just been shot fight in the Spanish Civil War. -
Of Mice of Men
It explores the heartbreaking dreams and struggles of two disenfranchised men, George and Lennie, whose bond is ultimately shattered by Lennie's unintentional violence, leading George to make the devastating choice to end his friend's life to spare him from a harsher fate. -
Strange Fruit
It sadly exposes the brutal and degrading reality of racial violence, depicting the lynching of Black individuals in the American South, and serving as a powerful and lingering reminder of the widespread injustice and loss of innocent lives during that era. -
The Atomic Bombing of Hiroshima and Nagasaki
Caused the instant death of tens of thousands of civilians, left countless others suffering from long-term radiation effects, and marked a deep moment in history where human technology unleashed record destruction and pain on innocent populations. -
The Seventh Seal
It shows a knight’s pointless search for meaning in life as he faces death, symbolized by his chess game with the Grim Reaper, ultimately illustrating the inevitability of death and the existential misery of human existence in a world wasted by war and plague.