Destruction and pillage
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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.
Otto van VeenDate: [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.
Francisco GoyaReference: 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- Books
History of loot and stolen art from antiquity until the present day / Ivan Lindsay.
Ivan LindsayDate: 2013
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Achan is stoned to death for stealing the spoils of the fall of Jericho. Line engraving.
Reference: 18342i




