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Contributing Institution: Pitts Theology Library Description: The decapitated body of John the Baptist and the soldier sheathing his sword are in the foreground, while John's head is carried on a platter to the table where Herod the tetrarch and his consort Herodias are seated at table in the rear -
Contributing Institution: Pitts Theology Library Description: The Apostle Matthias stands with book in hand and his attribute the axe, while in the background is depicted his own martyrdom by beheading. The monogram of the artist, Virgil Solis (1514-1562), is on the blade of the axe. -
Contributing Institution: Pitts Theology Library Description: The Apostle Matthew stands with a builder's square in hand, while in the background is depicted his own martyrdom by decapitation. The monogram of the artist, Virgil Solis (1514-1562), is on the tree limb at the upper right. -
Contributing Institution: Pitts Theology Library Description: Some Christian tradition holds that the Apostle James (the Greater) was martyred by being beheaded -
Contributing Institution: Pitts Theology Library Description: Here the Apostle Matthew is martyred by decapitation -
Contributing Institution: Pitts Theology Library Description: A swordsman stands over a beheaded man (Nicanor?), as a horse, ridden by a blindfolded king carrying a severed flagpole, kneels to drink -
Contributing Institution: Pitts Theology Library Description: The Apostle James the Greater stands with staff in hand and wearing his characteristic pilgrim's hat, while in the background is depicted his own martyrdom by beheading. The monogram of the artist, Virgil Solis (1514-1562), is in the clouds at the upper right. -
Contributing Institution: Pitts Theology Library Description: As Holofernes decapitated body lies in bed in a tent, Judith stands nearby with a sword in her hand, as she extends Holofernes' head to her maidservent -
Contributing Institution: Pitts Theology Library Description: Historiated title-page border from the workshop of Lucas Cranach, the Elder, depicting the story of John the Baptist's martyrdom on the order of Herod Antipas -
Contributing Institution: Pitts Theology Library Description: As a guard stands with a sword over the body of John the Baptist in the background, Herod and his wife Herodias sit at a banquet table with a court jester and are approached by Herodias' daughter with the head of John on a plate