Giovanni Battista TIEPOLO Decapitation of Saint John the Baptist(1732–1733)
No matter that this form of execution revolts todays civilized people, or horrified people of the past when decapicated heads of riots or criminals exposed in public, it seems to be the less painful and of instant death for the victim and in some cases a kind of honourable execution, in relation with any other kind of martyrdom of sadistic nature with prolonged suffering and terrible pain delaying as possible the salvation by death.
Decapitation of Violent Chinese Soldiers artist:Utagawa Kokunimasa, October 1894
Also it was a common method of celebrating a victory in a battle by collecting heads of the dead enemies and make a pile of them and also a proof for the execution of a wanted criminal to claim the reward.
Chinese drawings of decapitation punishment
Decapitation of Christian martyrs (unknown artist's medieval painting)
Crusader beheads arab prisoners
public decapitation (unknown artist and date)
Ritual decapitation in precolombian Peru 1000 years before Incas
Babylonian relief of decapitated enemies
Benvenuto Cellini, 1545 - 1554 Perseus holds the severed Medusa's head
Caravaggio (1609) David holds Goliath's severed head
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