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Destruction and pillage

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War Crimes
Robbery

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  • An episode in the novel  Niccolò de' Lapi. by Massimo D'Azeglio: a massacre in a church during the Sack of Rome is interrupted by the arrival of the soldier of fortune Fanfulla da Lodi. Wood engraving by A. Centenari and G. Sabbatini after R. Venturi.
  • A woman covers her eyes as she steals the teeth of a hanged man. Aquatint with etching by F. Goya, ca. 1797.
  • A woman covers her eyes as she steals the teeth of a hanged man. Aquatint with etching by F. Goya, ca. 1797.
  • Achan is stoned to death for stealing the spoils of the fall of Jericho. Line engraving.
  • A battle between Romans and the Germans at Trier: the Germans are returning on a bridge over the river Moselle after having attacked the camp of the Romans, when the Romans counterattack. Etching by A. Tempesta after O. van Veen, 1612.

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    A battle between Romans and the Germans at Trier: the Germans are returning on a bridge over the river Moselle after having attacked the camp of the Romans, when the Romans counterattack. Etching by A. Tempesta after O. van Veen, 1612.

    Veen, Otto van, 1556-1629. | Date: [1612] | Reference: 43021i
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    A woman covers her eyes as she steals the teeth of a hanged man. Aquatint with etching by F. Goya, ca. 1797.

    Goya, Francisco, 1746-1828. | Reference: 18059i
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    An episode in the novel Niccolò de' Lapi. by Massimo D'Azeglio: a massacre in a church during the Sack of Rome is interrupted by the arrival of the soldier of fortune Fanfulla da Lodi. Wood engraving by A. Centenari and G. Sabbatini after R. Venturi.

    Venturi, Roberto, 1846-1883. | Date: [1882] | Reference: 42921i
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    History of loot and stolen art from antiquity until the present day / Ivan Lindsay.

    Lindsay, Ivan, 1962- | Date: 2013
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    Achan is stoned to death for stealing the spoils of the fall of Jericho. Line engraving.

    | Reference: 18342i

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