Images

Titulus Crucis, a wooden plaque, allegedly part of the relics discovered by Helena of Constantinople. Church of the Holy Cross, Rome.

Ecce Homo!, oil on canvas by Mihály Munkácsy, 1896. Déri Museum, Debrecen.

Christ in front of Pilate, oil on canvas by Mihály Munkácsy, 1881. Hungarian National Gallery, Budapest.

Chronos and His Child, a depiction of the Titan Cronus as "Father Time," wielding a harvesting scythe, oil on canvas by Giovanni Francesco Romanelli, 17th century. National Museum, Warsaw.

Charlotte Corday, dubbed the "Angel of Assassination" for her murder of Jean-Paul Marat during the French Revolution. Portrait by François-Séraphin Delpech, c. 19th century.

Portrait of Jean-Paul Marat (1743-1793), an activist, journalist and Jacobin leader during the French Revolution (1789-1799), oil on canvas by Joseph Boze, 1793. Musée Carnavalet, Paris.

Charlotte Corday, the future assassin of Jean-Paul Marat, in her hometown of Caen, Normandy. Oil on canvas by Tony Robert-Fleury, c. 20th century. Musée Bonnat-Helleu, Bayonne.

The Assassination of Jean-Paul Marat, oil on canvas by Paul-Jacques-Aimé Baudry, 1860. Nantes Museum of Arts.

Death of Marat, oil on canvas by Jacques-Louis David, 1793. Royal Museums of Fine Arts, Brussels.

The famous final portrait of Charlotte Corday, painted in her prison cell hours before her execution by Jean-Jacques Hauer, an officer of the National Guard, in 1793. Current location unknown, but a copy is in Versailles.