Suicide in art

Ajax

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  Wilhelm Bauer (1600 - 1642), Suicide of Ajax
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  The suicide of Ajax the Great. Etrurian red-figured calyx-krater, ca. 400–350 BC. Said to be from Vulci
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  Telamonian Aias is preparing suicide. 530-525 BC

Cato of Utica

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  Domenico Beccafumi (1486 - 1551): Der Selbstmord des Cato von Utica
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  Guillaume Guillon Lethière: The Death of Cato the YoungerCato of Utica, 1795
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  Jean-Baptiste Roman & François Rude: Cato of Utica reading the Phedon before comitting suicide. Marble, 1840
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  Louis-André-Gabriel Bouchet: "Death of Cato the Younger" Award-winning entry for the Prix de Rome (1797)
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  Pierre-Narcisse Guérin: "Death of Cato the Younger"). Award-winning entry for the Prix de Rome (1797)

Thomas Chatterton

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  Henry Wallis: The Death of Thomas Chatterton

Cleopatra

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  „PE“ (vielleicht Peter Ehemann), Kleopatra oder Eurydike, 1532
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  Guido Reni Death of Cleopatra, c. 1595-1598
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  Guido Reni: Cleopatra with the Asp (1630)
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  Leonhard Kern: Cleopatra, ivory, after 1652
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  Leonhard Kern, Cleopatra, detail
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  Guido Cagnacci: The Death of Cleopatra, 1658
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  Augustin Hirschvogel: The death of Cleopatra.
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  Jean André Rixens: The Death of Cleopatra (1874)
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  Alexandre Cabanel: Cleopatra testing poisons on condemned prisoners, 1887
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  Reginald Arthur: The Death of Cleopatra , 1892
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  Benczúr Gyula (1844-1920): Kleopátra, 1911

Lucretia

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  Raffaello Sanzio: Lucretia, Kupferstich, ca 1510/11
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  Sandro Botticelli: Tod der Lucretia, ca 1500
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  Albrecht Dürer: Selbstmord der Lukretia, 1518
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  Lucas Cranach der Ältere: Lucretia
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  Joerg Breu the Elder: The Suicide of Lucretia (1528)
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  Master of the Holy Blood Lucretia c. 1530
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  Michele Tosini: Lucretia, 1540s
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  Paolo Veronese Lucretia (c. 1580)
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  Guido Reni Selbstmord der Lucretia, 1640-1642
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  Guido Reni Suicídio de Lucrécia, 1625-1640
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  Guido Cagnacci: Lucretia
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  Sebastiano Ricci: Lucretia 1685
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  Andrea Casali Lucretia 1750
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  Rembrandt's portrait of Lucretia

Phaedra

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  Alexandre Cabanel: "Phèdre" ("Phaedra") 1880

Romeo and Juliet

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  Johann Heinrich Füssli: Romeo at Juliet's Deathbed, 1809
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  Frederic Lord Leighton (1830 – 1896): The Reconciliation of the Montagues and Capulets 1854
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  Original painting by John Opie, engraved by G.S. and J.G. Facius
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  Original painting by J. Northcode , R.A., engraved by P. Simon (Juliet wake up in the grave)

Sappho

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  Charles Mengin: Sappho, 1877
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  Théodore Chassériau Sappho Leaping into the Sea from the Leucadian Promontory,
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  Gustave Moreau Sapho à Leucade, c. 1840
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  Gustave Moreau Mort de Sapho, c. 1870
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  Gustave Moreau Sappho, 1893 (?)
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  Jules Elie Delaunay Sapho embrassant sa lyre
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  Ernst Stückelberg Sappho , 1897

Socrates

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  The Death of Socrates by Jacques-Louis David, 1787
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  Daniel Chodowiecki: The death of Socrates
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  Vincenzo Camuccini: Lamentation over the Corpse of Socrates, early 1800s
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  Mark Antokolski: Death of Socrates, 1875
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  Socrates using his socratic method

de:Sophonisbe - en:Sophonisba

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  Villa Caldogno (Caldogno, Vicenza). Affreschi dell'ala sinistra di Giovanni Battista Zelotti 1570
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  Georg Pencz: Sophonisbe leert den Giftbecher
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  Giambattista Pittoni: Death of Sophonisba, 1730s
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  Anatole Devosge (attributed) La Mort de Sophonisbe

Others

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  So-called Ludovisi Gaul and his wife. Marble, Roman copy after an Hellenistic original
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  So-called Ludovisi Gaul and his wife. Marble, Roman copy after an Hellenistic original
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  Giotto di Bondone (1267-1337), Cappella Scrovegni a Padova, Desperation
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  Georg Pencz: Sophonisbe leert den Giftbecher, ca. 1500
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  William Hogarth: Part of the Marriage à-la-mode series (1743). The Suicide of the Countess
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  Disperacio (Desperation, hanging) in Doge's Palace (Venice)
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  Utagawa Kuniyoshi, 1798 - 1861: Tamomori tied to a huge anchor ready to cast himself into the sea
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  Tsukioka Yoshitoshi: General Akashi Gidayu preparing to commit Seppuku (Harakiri)
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  Octave Tassaert: An Unfortunate Family aka Suicide 1852, Musée Fabre, Montpellier
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  Antoine Wiertz: The Suicide, 1854
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  Vasily Perov : Found Drowned (1867)
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  Édouard Manet, 1877-81:

  Deutsch: Selbstmörder

  English: The Suicide

  Français : Le Suicidé
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  Street Girl's End, 1884
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  en:Madame Restell's suicide